Dr. Michael S. Branicky, Sc.D., P.E.

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]