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University of Southern California


Craig A. Knoblock
 
 
  
 Curriculum Vitae  
 
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 Education  
 
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1984-1991  
  Ph.D., Computer Science, May 1991  
  Thesis Title: Automatically Generating Abstractions for Problem Solving  
  Advisor: Jaime G. Carbonell  
 
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1984-1988  
  M.S., Computer Science, May 1988  
 
  Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 1980--1984  
  B.S., Computer Science with Honors, May 1984  
 
 Research Positions  
 
  Director of Information Integration, June, 2010 -- present  
  Senior Project Leader, May, 2001 -- June, 2010  
  Project Leader, May, 1997 -- May, 2001  
  Senior Research Scientist, Aug 1991 -- May 1997  
  Information Sciences Institute  
  University of Southern California  
 
  Research Professor, April, 2006 -- present  
  Research Associate Professor, November, 1998 -- March, 2006  
  Research Assistant Professor, September, 1991 -- November 1998  
  Computer Science Department  
  University of Southern California  
 
  Affiliated Faculty Member, 2010 -- present  
  Spatial Sciences Institute  
  University of Southern California  
 
  Key Investigator, September, 1996 -- September, 2007  
  Integrated Media Systems Center  
  University of Southern California  
 
  Cofounder & Chief Scientist, November, 1999 -- December, 2010  
  Fetch Technologies, Inc.  
  Acquired by Connotate, Inc. in December, 2011.  
 
  Cofounder & Chief Scientist, November, 2004 -- June, 2012  
  Geosemble Technologies, Inc.  
  Acquired by TerraGo Technologies in June, 2012.  
 
 Honors and Awards  
 
  Best Research Paper Award, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2012.  
 
  Distinguished Scientist, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), 2008.  
 
  Fellow, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2004.  
 
  Best Paper Award, IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003).  
 
  Meritorious Service Award, Information Sciences Institute, 1999.  
 
  Teaching Fellowship, Information Sciences Institute, Fall, 1996.  
 
  Best Paper Award, Canadian Artificial Intelligence Conference, 1994.  
 
  Graduate Fellowship, Air Force Laboratory, 1987-1991.  
 
  Class Scholar, Syracuse University, 1984.  
 
  Upper Division Honors, Syracuse University, 1984.  
 
  Lower Division Honors, Syracuse University, 1982.  
 
  Regents Scholarship, New York State, 1980-1984.  
 
 Grants and Contracts  
 
  Principal Investigator, Integrating Heterogeneous Sources in a Geospatial Framework to Support Oil Field Operations, Chevron, $110,000, January 2012.  
 
  Principal Investigator,Organizing and Linking Art Museum Information, Smithsonian American Art Museum, $200,000, April 2012.  
 
  Principal Investigator, Integrating Heterogeneous Sources in a Geospatial Framework to Support Oil Field Operations, Chevron, $145,000, January 2012.  
 
  Co-Principal Investigator, Geospatial Analysis of Motion-Based Intelligence Tracking, Office of Naval Research, $2,520,000, December 2011.  
 
  Principal Investigator,Building Linked Open Services from Online Sources, NSF, $500,000, October 2011.  
 
  Principal Investigator, Integrating Heterogeneous Sources in a Geospatial Framework to Support Oil Field Operations, Chevron, $96,000, January 2011.  
 
  Principal Investigator, DOmain Vocabulary from Extraction, Transduction, and Auto Induction of Layout (DOVETAIL), IARPA, (subcontract from SRI), $2,307,822, October 2010.  
 
  Principal Investigator, An Integrated Framework for Geospatial Data Fusion, DOD, $300K, August 2010.  
 
  Principal Investigator, Building Mashups for Decision Making, DARPA, $150,000, April 2010.  
 
  Principal Investigator, Integrating Heterogeneous Sources in a Geospatial Framework to Support Oil Field Operations, Chevron, $150,000, January 2010.  
 
  Principal Investigator, Harvesting Named Geographic Features from Raster Maps, DOD, $300,000, October 2009.  
 
  Co-Principal Investigator, Automation of Technical Reachback for PMESII Best Practices, OSD STTR Phase I Project (subcontract from Securboration), $100,000, February 2009.  
 
  Co-Principal Investigator, Trend Analysis and Data Mining for Finding Suspicious Entities, AFRL STTR Phase II Project (subcontract from Fetch Technologies), $750,000, November 2008.  
 
  Co-Principal Investigator, Rapid engagement of humanitarian assistance social networks for ad hoc geospatial data sharing, National Science Foundation, $450,000, September 2008.  
 
  Principal Investigator, Sapling Effort on Information Integration, DARPA, $500,000, November 2007.  
 
  Co-Principal Investigator Exploiting Raster Maps for Imagery Analysis, AFOSR STTR Phase II Project (subcontract from Geosemble Technologies), $742,000, October 2007.  
 
  Co-Principal Investigator Trend Analysis and Data Mining for Finding Suspicious Entities, AFRL STTR Phase I Project (subcontract from Fetch Technologies), $100,000, October 2007.  
 
  Principal Investigator, Geospatial Information Integration and Visualization for Oil Field Operation and Exploration, Chevron, $275,000, September 2007.  
 
  Principal Investigator, Interleaved Information Gathering and Reasoning for Information Fusion, AFOSR, $740,000, April 2007.  
 
  Principal Investigator, Integrating Online Maps with Aerial Imagery, Microsoft Research, $40,000, March 2007.  
 
  Co-Principal Investigator, Exploiting Raster Maps for Imagery Analysis, AFOSR STTR Phase I Project (subcontract from Geosemble Technologies),$100,000, September 2006.  
 
  Co-Principal Investigator, GeoDec: Geospatial Decision Making, Microsoft Research, $40,000, January 2006.  
 
  Co-Principal Investigator, Accurate and Rapid Construction of Information-Rich 3-D City Models, Microsoft Research, $100,000, October 2005.  
 
  Principal Investigator, PSYOP Global Reach, Institute for Creative Technologies $200,000, October 2005.  
 
  Principal Investigator, EntityBases: Large-scale Knowledge Bases for Intelligence Data, AFRL, $3,450,000, April 2005.  
 
  Principal Investigator, Constraint-based Integration of Geospatial and Online Sources, Institute for Creative Technologies, $501,000, March 2004.  
 
  Principal Investigator, A Framework for Integrating Geospatial and Online Data to Respond to Unexpected Events, NSF ITR Grant, $1,180,000, October 2003.  
 
  Principal Investigator, Enduring Personal Cognitive Assistant, DARPA PAL Program (subcontract from SRI), $3,125,000, May 2003.  
 
  Co-Principal Investigator, Proteus: A System for Execution of Dynamically Composed Web Services Using GXA, Microsoft, $350,000, January 2003.  
 
  Co-Principal Investigator, Machine Learning for Record Linkage II, AFOSR STTR Phase II (subcontract from Fetch Technologies), $173,000, September 2002.  
 
  Principal Investigator, Efficiently Accessing and Integrating Worldwide Geographic Data (TeraWorld), AFOSR DURIP equipment grant, $208,000, April 2002.  
 
  Co-Principal Investigator, Composing Web Sources Using a Scalable .Net Middleware, Microsoft, $200,000, January 2002.  
 
  Co-Principal Investigator, Machine Learning for Record Linkage (ML-Link), AFOSR STTR Phase I project (subcontract from Fetch Technologies), $36,000, October 2001.  
 
  Principal Investigator, WIDELink: A Bootstrapping Approach to Identifying, Modeling, and Linking On-Line Data Sources, DARPA Evidence Extraction and Link Discovery Program, $1,485,000, September 2001.  
 
  Principal Investigator, Rapidly Building High-Performance Information Agents, AFOSR, $780,000, December 2000.  
 
  Principal Investigator, Active Template Reasoning and Optimization, DARPA Active Templates Program, $3,911,500, April 2000.  
 
  Co-Principal Investigator, Agents for Plan Management, DARPA Cooperative Agent-Based Systems Program, $2,102,000, July 1998.  
 
  Principal Investigator, Intelligent Agents for Retrieving, Filtering, and Managing Information, AFOSR, $985,000, October 1997.  
 
  Co-Principal Investigator, A Portable SIMS System for Integrating Inconsistent and Partial Information Sources, DARPA Intelligent Information Integration Program, $1,867,000, October 1997.  
 
  Co-Principal Investigator, Information Integration for Battlefield Awareness, DARPA Battlefield Awareness and Data Dissemination Program, 750,000, June 1997.  
 
  Co-Principal Investigator, SIMS for Dealmaker, DARPA Advanced Logistics Program, $544,000, August 1996.  
 
  Co-Principal Investigator, SIMS II: Single Interface to Multiple Sources of Incomplete Information, ARPA Intelligent Integration of Information Program, $1,200,000, March 1994.  
 
  Principal Investigator, Learning and Reformulation for Efficient Multidatabase Retrieval, National Science Foundation Database and Expert Systems Program, $259,000, September 1993.  
 
  Principal Investigator, Building Information Servers, DARPA Augmentation Award for Science and Engineering Research Training, $139,000, March 1993.  
 
 Patents  
 
  System and Method for Fusing Geospatial Data  
  Ching-Chien Chen, Craig A. Knoblock, Cyrus Shahabi, and Yao-Yi Chiang  
  US Patent No. 7,660,441, 2011  
 
  Performing Predictive Pricing Based on Historical Data  
  Oren Etzioni, Alexander Yates, Craig A. Knoblock, and Rattapoom Tuchinda  
  US Patent No. 7,974,863, 2011  
  US Patent No. 7,346,520, 2008  
  US Patent No. 7,010,494, 2006  
 
  Wrapper Induction by Hierarchical Data Analysis  
  Ion Muslea, Steven Minton, and Craig A. Knoblock  
  US Patent No. 6,606,625, 2003  
 
 Patents Pending  
 
  Processing Time-based Geospatial Data  
  US Patent Application Number: 20110142347  
 
  Dynamically Linking Relevant Documents to Regions of Interest  
  US Patent Application Number: 20110119265  
 
  Precisely Locating Features on Geospatial Imagery  
  US Patent Application Number: 20110007941  
 
  Systems and methods for linking content to individual image features  
  US Patent Application Number: 20090285487  
 
 
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