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    Steve Chien

    Dr. Steve Chien is Technical Group Supervisor of the Artificial Intelligence Group, Advanced Information Systems Section at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology where he leads efforts in automated planning and scheduling. Dr. Chien is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Southern California. He holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, all from the University of Illinois. His Ph.D. dissertation title was: An Explanation-based Learning Approach to Incremental Planning. Dr. Chien was a program committee member for: the Sixth International Workshop on Machine Learning in 1989 (co-organizer of the session on Learning Plan Knowledge); the Eighth International Workshop on Machine Learning in 1991 (the session on Learning for Engineering Automation); the 1992 AAAI Fall Symposium on Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Autonomous Mobile Robotics; and the 1994 AAAI Fall Symposium on Learning and Planning. He is also an invited member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Dr. Chien is a recipient of the 1995 Lew Allen Award for excellence, JPLs highest award recognizing outstanding technical achievements by JPL personnel in the early years of their careers. Dr. Chien has presented invited seminars on machine learning, planning, and expert systems and has authored numerous publications in these areas. His current research interests lie in the areas of: planning and scheduling, machine learning, operations research, and decision theory.