Brief Curriculum Vitae
for David Andre
Education:
University of California at Berkeley
In PhD program in Computer Science, focusing on Artificial Intelligence.
Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
B.S. 1994 -- Symbolic Systems with Honors and Distinction, concentration
in Artificial Intelligence and Learning Theory.
B.A. 1994 -- Psychology with Honors and Distinction, concentration in
Cognitive Science.
Course work includes computer science, machine learning, artificial
intelligence, robotics, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, physics, and
mathematics.
Honors:
1990 David Starr Jordan Scholarship at Stanford
1991 Presidential Award for Academic Excellence in the Freshman Year at
Stanford
1993 Elected to Phi Beta Kappa in Junior Year at Stanford
1994 Dean's Award for Academic Achievement at Stanford (given to only 8
students per year)
1994 Firestone Medal for honor's research in Psychology at Stanford
1996 Won and Accepted National Defense Science and Engineering Grant for
Graduate Study
1996 Won National Science Foundation competition for Graduate Student Fellowships
Relevant Research Positions:
7/94 -current
Visiting Scholar, Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Continuing research started while an undergraduate. Pursued independent
research in the field of evolutionary computation, leading to presentation
of work at IJCAI-95. Continued honors research in cognitive development,
design and execution of a follow-up study, preparation of a journal article.
Joint research with Illah Nourbakhsh, Dr. Michael Genesereth, and Dr. Carlos
Tomasi on new vision algorithms for robotics utilizing depth from focus
-- design, experimentation, execution, and preparation of article.
5/94 - current
Researcher, Genetic Algorithms Technology Corporation.
Research into genetic programming applied to problems in molecular biology,
control theory, machine learning, artificial intelligence, digital circuit
design, artificial life, signal processing and classification, and data
mining. Research, design, implementation, and maintenance of the Genetic
Programming Code for three operating systems: a parallel transputer environment,
a parallel PowerPC environment, and the Microsoft NT operating system.
System administration for network of 4 PC's, 2 Macintoshes, and 3 parallel
machines.
6/92 - 5/94
Research Consultant, Canon Research Center of America, Palo Alto.
Image processing algorithm research and programming. Microsoft Windows
NT programming. Research into methods for optical character recognition,
segmentation of noisy images. Research into machine learned OCR systems.
Evolutionary computing. Developed Windows NT based networking software
for distributed computing over several MS-DOS PC's. Developed Windows NT
research tool for viewing of images.
9/91 - 6/92
Research Assistant for Dr. Ellen Markman, Stanford Department of
Psychology.
Aided in design, literature search, testing and analysis for a study investigating
infant language acquisition.
6/91 - 9/91
Intern at U.S.D.O.E. Ames Lab, Fundamental Interactions Program.
Worked with computer simulations of atomic cluster behavior on metallic
surfaces. Aided in design and execution of the research; wrote analysis
programs for simulation results.
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