Education

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Ph= . D. (Computer Science), February 1998.

Th= esis title: Situation-Dependent Learning for Interleaved Planning and Robot Execution

University of Ottawa= , Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. <= /p>

B.= Sc. (Honours Computer Science), April 1992, summ= a cum laude

Work Experience

BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

No= vember 2005 – present. Senior Scientist, Intelligent Distributed Computing Group.

Performed research developing and embedding cognitive techniques in complex systems. Managed projects with teams of other scientists. Conceived= and wrote proposals to customers, predominantly DARPA. Led and participated in other strategic planning and business development activities including cust= omer visits and opportunity tracking.

Selected Projects:

Tactical Edge Networking.<= /b> 2007-current. PI. Prepared recommendations for military Policies regarding tactical edge networks for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, focusing= on interoperability and distributed control.

POIROT. Plan Order Ind= uction by Reasoning from One Trial. 2006-current. “Hypothesis former” lead. Develop workflow models from one training example, using multistrategy learning to develop testable hypotheses about model structure. DARPA’= s Integrated Learning program.

ADROIT. Adaptive Dynam= ic Radio Open-source Intelligent Team. 2005-2006. Cognitive Lead. Create an open-source composable network architecture suitable for cognitive control = that adapts in real-time to changes in the environment and user needs. DARPAR= 17;s ACERT program.

Honeywell Laboratories, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Ju= ne 1998 – November 2005. Principal Research Scientist, Automated Reasoning Gr= oup.

Performed research in machine learning, planning, knowledge manage= ment and other fields of artificial intelligence for automated systems such as robots, refineries, aircraft and intelligent homes. Published technical pap= ers and prepared patents. Managed projects with small teams of other scientists. Conceived and wrote proposals to customers including DARPA, NASA and NIST. = Led and participated in business development activities including customer visi= ts and opportunity tracking.

Selected Projects:

LifeCare. 2004-2005. Productization strategies for in-home monitoring of elderly clients, includ= ing sensing modalities, reasoning algorithms, strategic partnerships, and IP issues.

NetCon. Universal Configurator for MANETs. 2004-2005. PI. Developed machine learning techniqu= es to automatically configure network control parameters to achieve distribute= d, cross-layer optimization in mobile adhoc networks.

I.L.S.A. Independent LifeStyle Assistant™. 2000-2003. Lead Architect. An intelligent, adap= tive home automation system with a sophisticated situation awareness and decision-making capabilities that reason over a diverse set of sensors, med= ical devices and “smart” appliances to enable elderly and infirm use= rs to live and function safely at home. NIST Advanced Technology Program.

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, = USA.

Graduate Research Assistant. Computer Science Department.

September 1992 - May 1998.

Thesis Committee: Manuela M. Veloso (chair), Mitchell, R. Simmons,= R. J. Firby (Neodesic Corporation)

Designed and built a robot learning system that uses feedback from execution experience to improve efficiency of generated plans.

Selected Publications (of 48 total)

Complete list of publications available from http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~khaigh

1.      = K. Z. Haigh, O. Olofinboba, C. Y. Tang, “Designing an Implementable User-Oriented Objective Function for MANETs,” to ap= pear in IEEE International Conference On Networking, Sensing and Control, London, U.K. April 15-17, 2007.

2.      = K. Z. Haigh, S. Varadarajan, C. Y. Tang, “Au= tomatic Learning-based MANET Cross-Layer Parameter Configuration,” in IEEE Workshop on Wireless Ad hoc and S= ensor Networks (WWASN), Lisbon, Portugal, July 2006.

3.      = K. Z. Haigh, L. M. Kiff, G. Ho. “The Independent LifeStyle Assistant^TM (I.L.S.A.): Lessons Learned.” Assistive Technology, 18:87&= shy;106. 2006.

4.      = K. Z. Haigh, L. M. Kiff, K. Krichbaum, J. Wuorenma, “The Technologist’s Guide to Setting up an Eldercare Field Study,̶= 1; in Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Sym= posium “Caring Machines: AI in Eldercare,” Nov 2005, Washington, D= C, USA.

5.      = W. Foslien, V. Guralnik, K. Z. Haigh, “Data Mining for Space Applications,” in Space Operations, Montréal, Québec, Cana= da. May 2004.

6.      = V. Guralnik and K. Z. Haigh. “Learn= ing Models of Human Behaviour with Sequential Patterns,” In Proceedings of the AAAI-02 Workshop “Automation as Caregiver,” Edmonton, Canada, July 2002. Pages 24-30.

7.      = K. Z. Haigh and M. M. Veloso, “Plann= ing, Execution and Learning in a Robotic Agent,” in R. Simmons, M. Vel= oso and S. Smith, Proceedings of Artifi= cial Intelligence Planning Systems (AIPS), Pittsburgh, PA, June 1998. Pages 120-127.

8.      = K. Z. Haigh, J. R.d Shewchuk and M. M. Veloso, R= 20;Explo= iting Domain Geometry in Analogical Route Planning,” Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. 9(1997):509-541.

Selected Patents (of 19 total)

1.&n= bsp;       K. Z. Haigh, V. Guralnik, W. Foslien, Identifying D= ata Patterns, U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 11/032,588, filed 10 Janua= ry 2005.

2.&n= bsp;       V. Guralnik, K. Z. Haigh and S. A. Harp, Methods for learning the patterns of behaviour of an actor or environment. U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/339,941, filed 10 January 2003.

3.&n= bsp;       C. A. Miller, W. L. Dewing, K. Z. Haigh, D. C. Toms= , R. P. Whillock, C. W. Geib, S. V. Metz, R. M. R. Richardson, S. D. Whitlow, J.= A. Allen, L. A. King, J. Phelps, V. A. Riley and P. Wu. A method for monitoring, recognizing, supporting and responding to = the behaviour of an actor. U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 10/341,335, f= iled 10 January 2003.

4.&n= bsp;       A. Tasooji, K. Haigh and D. V. Reising. Adaptive Knowledge Management system f= or Vehicle Trend Monitoring, Health Management and Preventative Maintenance. U.S patent 6,907,416, awarded 14 June 2005.

Professional Activities

1996-current:   &nbs= p;         Member of AAAI (American Association of Artificial Intelligence)

1998-current:   &nbs= p;         Committee member and/or Chair, variety of Artificial Intelligence competitions, works= hops and conferences.

2006:     =             &nb= sp;         Member of the Advisory Board, Nestling Technology Initiative, U. of= Ulster, Ireland.

2003, 2005, 2007:   =     Proposal Panel member, National Science Foundation.

2001:     =             &nb= sp;         Six Sigma Greenbelt Certification.

Personal

Languages:    &= nbsp; Native English. Good French and Mandarin Chinese.

Citizenship:    = ; Canada, Un= ited Kingdom, United States.

Clearance:    &= nbsp;   Application for U.S.= secret submitted June 2005.

10 = Dow St. #2	Email:
Somervi= lle, MA 02144<= /st1:PostalCode>	http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~khaigh
USA