Curriculum Vitae

Technical Interests
New IT-enabled concepts of operationin science, design, logistics and government
Next-generation Intranets and Extranets in distributed, interdependent organizations
Collaboration, coordination, and visualizationaids for information analysis / management
"System of systems" frameworks for information integration and management

Professional History
Director, Distributed Scalable Systems Division, USC ISI, (acting from 9/2000, permanent from June 2002)

Program Manager, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, 7/94 - 7/97 (responsible for program technical/budgetary planning, project selection and management, in efforts valued at $180M)
--Managed the Planning & Decision Aids program
--Co-developed the Advanced Logistics Program
--Helped the Defense Logistics Agency found a $40M R&D program linked to DARPA efforts
--Managed elements of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Agile Manufacturing, and Intelligent Integration of Information (I3) programs

Project Leader and Research Associate Professor, USC/Information Sciences Institute, 6/86 - 7/94
-- Established 8-person research group on individual and collaborative information management systems
-- Co-founded and led the ARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort

Research Computer Scientist, USC/Information Sciences Institute, 8/82 - 6/86
--Researched maintainable expert systems capable of explaining their reasoning steps
--Developed friendly computing environments with advanced email and collaboration aids

Post-Doc, Learning Research and DevelopmentCenter, University of Pittsburgh, 1/81 - 8/82
--Developed cognitive simulations, machine learning programs and programming architectures

Education:
Carnegie Mellon, Ph.D. (1981) and M.S. (1977); UC San Diego , B.A. (1976)

• Jihie Kim, Peter Will, S. Ringo Ling, and Robert Neches. Knowledge-Rich Catalog Services for Engineering Design. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 17, 349-366, 2004.
• B.Yan, M. Frank, P. Szekely, R. Neches, J. Lopez, WebScripter: Grass-roots Ontology Alignment via End-User Report Creation. 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003), pages 676-689, ( Sanibel Island, Florida, Oct 20-23) 2003.
• J. Chen, A. Bugacov, P. Szekely, M. Frank, M. Cai, D. Kim, and R. Neches, Coordinated Aggressive Bidding in Distributed Combinatorial Resource Allocation. AAMAS Workshop on Representations and Approaches for Time-critical Decentralized Resource/Role/Task Allocation, Melbourne, Australia, July 14, 2003
• In-Young Ko and Robert Neches. Composing Web Services for Large-Scale Tasks. IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 7, No. 5, September-October 2003.
• R. Neches, K-T. Yao, I-Y. Ko, A. Bugacov, V. Kumar, and R. Eleish, GeoWorlds: Integrating GIS and Digital Libraries for Situation Understanding and Management, The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, Vol. 7, 2001.
• I-Y. Ko, R. Neches, and K-T. Yao, A Semantic Model and Composition Mechanism for Active Document Collection Templates in Web-based Information Management Systems, The Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (ETAI), Vol. 6, 2001.
• K-T. Yao, I-Y. Ko, R. Eleish, and R. Neches, Asynchronous Information Space Analysis Architecture Using Content and Structure-Based Service Brokering, Proceedings of the 5 th International Conference on Digital Libraries (DL2000), June 2000, San Antonio, Texas.
• R. Neches, S. Abhinkar, F. Hu, R. Eleish, I-Y. Ko, K-T. Yao, Q. Zhu, Collaborative Information Space Analysis Tools, D-Lib Web Magazine, October, 1998, ISSN 1082-9873, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october98/dasher/10dasher.html.
• R. Neches, Knowledge Sharing in Integrated User Support Environments: Applications, Frameworks, and Infrastructure. In K. Fuchi and T. Yokoi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1993 International Conference on Building and Sharing of Very Large-Scale Knowledge Bases, Tokyo, Japan: Japan Information Processing Development Center (JIPDEC), December 1-3, 1993.
• R. Neches, R. Fikes, T. Finin, T. Gruber, R. Patil, T. Senator, & W. Swartout, Enabling Technology for Knowledge Sharing. AI Magazine, 12(3), 1991, 36-56.

Graduate Students Advised in Last Five Years
Sameer Abhinkar, Intel; Ragy Eleish, Oracle; Fangqi Hu, Qualcomm; Donghan Kim, USC; In-Young Ko, Information and Communications University; Vished Kumar, Mitratech; Peng Luo, USC; Ping Luo, PivotLink.com; Baoshi Yan, USC.

Graduate and Postgraduate Advisors
Dr. J. R. M. Hayes, Dr. David Klahr, Psychology Department, Carnegie-Mellon University; Dr. James Greeno, Psychology Department, Stanford University