Diana Spears

Current

• Owner and Research Scientist at Swarmotics LLC
• Adjunct Associate Professor at University of Wyoming

Past

• Associate Professor at University of Wyoming
• Research Scientist at Naval Research Laboratory
• Research Scientist at National Institute of Standards and Technology

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Education

• University of Maryland College Park

Connections

76 connections

Industry

Research

Websites

• My Website
• chemical plume tracing
• safe learning

Diana Spears’s Summary

Research scientist with over 20 years of experience in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics.

Diana Spears’s Specialties:

Multi-robot chemical plume tracing, robotic sensing networks, machine learning, swarm robotics, verification of adaptive and machine learning systems.

Diana Spears’s Experience

• Owner and Research Scientist

  Swarmotics LLC

  (Computer Software industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year)

  More than 20 years of expertise in the fields of artificial intelligence (especially machine learning) and robotics. Current areas of specialization include computational fluid dynamics approaches to multi-robot chemical plume tracing, distributed robotic sensing networks, and static and run-time verification of adaptive and machine learning systems.

• Adjunct Associate Professor

  University of Wyoming

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year)

• Associate Professor

  University of Wyoming

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  August 2001 — August 2008 (7 years 1 month)

• Research Scientist

  Naval Research Laboratory

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Military industry)

  June 1986 — August 2001 (15 years 3 months)

  Developed and implemented basic and applied research algorithms for artificial intelligence, with a specialty in machine learning.

• Research Scientist

  National Institute of Standards and Technology

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  December 1980 — June 1986 (5 years 7 months)

  Research scientist responsible for the development and implementation of robot control software.

Diana Spears’s Education

• University of Maryland College Park

  M.S., Ph.D. , Computer Science , 1980 — 1990

Additional Information

Diana Spears’s Websites:

• My Website
• chemical plume tracing
• safe learning

Diana Spears’s Interests:

multi-robot chemical plume tracing, behaviorally-assured adaptive systems, distributed robotic sensing networks, computational fluid dynamics and gridding, mathematical/graphical modeling and model reconstruction, and computational geometry and homology

Diana Spears’s Groups:

Goddard

•    Machine Learning Connection
•    Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Diana Spears’s Honors:

My former Ph.D. student Dimitri Zarzhitsky won the best student paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC'05). He also twice won the best student presentation award at the UW Graduate Student Symposium, 2005 and 2006.
My former M.S. student Antons Rebguns won the first prize in the "best student paper" competition at the 2008 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS'08).
NRL Alan Berman Research Publication Awards 1994 and 2001.
10 NRL Awards for outstanding performance.

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