I like to play tennis, and used to play some soccer; while at CMU, I used to play soccer with the Robotics
team, the Viking Death Rats.
I was captain of the team for four years (we were Intramurals champions
in 1995). I also like to read, even though I have not been able to read as much as I want
since my son was born (in 1996...!).
Research:
I work within the broad area of artificial intelligence, mostly with machine learning
and knowledge representation.
I have worked with probabilistic reasoning, both with machine learning techniques
and with the representation of facts, rules and beliefs. I have kept a particular interest
in Bayesian networks and related models
(the JavaBayes system
is my implementation of Bayesian Networks in Java; also take a look at the page for
the Interchange Format for
Bayesian networks).
Apart from these issues, I have worked in a variety of applications,
mostly in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence; in the past
I have been particularly involved with mobile robots and their sensors.
Maybe you should look at some of my publications
(there is a
list of selected publications,
from which you can grasp the topics I have been interested in,
and a
complete list of publications).
If you are interested in any of my publications, take look at the errata!