Associate Professor at University of Wyoming
Cheyenne, Wyoming Area
- Current
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- Associate Professor at University of Wyoming
- Past
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- Research Scientist at Naval Research Laboratory
- Research Scientist at National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Education
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- University of Maryland College Park
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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
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Associate Professor
University of Wyoming
(Educational Institution; Computer Software industry)
August 2001 — Present (6 years 10 months)
Associate Professor and research scientist with expertise in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics. Co-Director of the University of Wyoming Distributed Robotics Laboratory. 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.
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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.
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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
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University of Maryland College Park
M.S., Ph.D., Computer Science, 1980 — 1990
Additional Information
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Diana Spears’s Interests:
multi-robot chemical plume tracing, behaviorally-assured adaptive systems, distributed robotic sensing networks, computational fluid dynamics, and computational geometry and homology
Diana Spears’s Groups:
Goddard
Diana Spears’s Honors:
My 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.
NRL Alan Berman Research Publication Awards 1994 and 2001.
10 NRL Awards for outstanding performance.
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