Dr. Michael S. Branicky, Sc.D., P.E.
Computer Science CV
CS Education
- Doctor of Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT (1995)
- Thesis Topic: hybrid systems (mixing finite automata, differential eqns.)
- Minor: Computer Science
- Academic Advisor: Rod Brooks
- Selected CS Courses
- Theory of Computation (MIT, Mike Sipser)
- Computational Learning Theory (MIT, Ron Rivest)
- Algorithms (MIT, Charles Leiserson)
- AI (MIT, David McAllister)
- EEAP 491: Intelligent Systems I (CWRU, George Ernst)
- ECES 233: Data Structures (CWRU, Meral Ozsoyoglu)
CS Professional Positions
- Associate Professor with tenure, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science, CWRU (current)
- Member, CS Curricular Responsibility Group, EECS, CWRU (current)
- Post-Doc, Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT (1995-6, under Nancy Lynch)
- Research Fellow, AI Lab, MIT (1989-90)
CS Honors and Awards
- Top 1% Most Cited Authors in Computer Science
- NSF ITR Review Panel
- Session Organizer, AAAI Spring Symposium (1999)
- Winner, Best Video (ICRA 2002, with others)
- Finalist, Best Paper (IROS 2001, with student)
- AFOSR Fellowship for AI/Robotics
- NSF Fellowship (proferred) for AI/Robotics
Other CS Honors and Awards
- Invited to be a DARPA ITO (Information Technology Office) Program Manager
(2000)
- Interviewed at Stanford for a tenure-track faculty position
to include a joint appointment in CS (1998)
- Interviewed at MIT for a tenure-track faculty position
to include joint appointment in CS (1996)
- Accepted as graduate student, Area II: CS, EECS Dept., MIT (1989)
Selected Funded Collaborative Research with CS Profs.
- NSF ITR grant (~$600K) incl. Steve LaValle (UIUC)
- Four NSF grants (~$4M) incl. Randy Beer (CWRU)
- Several industrial grants (~$1M) incl. Andy Podgurksi (CWRU)
Summary of CS Publications [by volume]
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Theory of Computing Systems (in press)
- Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science: 5
full-length, refereed papers
- IEEE Computer Society Press conference proceedings: 15 papers
CS Presentations
- Invited Tutorial,
November School on Embedded Systems, Eindhoven, THE NETHERLANDS (1996)
[others were Amir Pnueli and Al Mok]
- Invited Lecture, AAAI Spring Symposium (1998)
- Invited Lecture, Xerox Parc (1998)
- Guest Lecture: "Reinforcement Learning",
ECES 391: Artificial Intelligence, CWRU (1999-2002)
CS Courses Taught
- Theoretical Computer Science (S'01, S'02)
- Intelligent Systems II (F'97, S'99)
- Special Topics: Reinforcement Learning (S'99)
CS Students
- 3 current M.S. students
- 2 M.S. graduates (at Microsoft and Google)
Selected References [CS Profs.]
- Anil Nerode (Cornell)
- Nancy Lynch (LCS, MIT)
- Andy Barto (CS, UMass)
- Tomas Lozano-Perez (AI Lab, MIT)
- Wolfram Buettner (TU Munich, Siemens AG)
- Anders Ravn (Aalborg, DENMARK)
- Chris Atkeson (GA Tech)
``Computer Networks'' Activity
- 1 journal and 4 conference papers on control over networks
[not summarized above]
- 1 Ph.D. graduate (at Brocade Communications Systems, San Jose, CA)
- 3 submitted proposals (DARPA, NSF ITR, NASA); 2 incl.
Vincenzo Liberatore (CWRU)
``Bioinformatics'' Activity
- 1 publication (SIAM Annual Meeting) on molecular conformation
[not summarized above]
Created: 2002-08-24.
Last Modified: 2002-09-11.
© Michael S. Branicky