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Craig A. Knoblock
 
 
  
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  Craig A. Knoblock is a Senior Project Leader at the Information Sciences Institute, a unit of the University of Southern California (USC), and a Research Professor in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Computer Science Department. Dr. Knoblock also is a founder and Chief Scientist of Fetch Technologies, a web integration solutions provider, and of Geosemble Technologies, which develops geospatial information solutions.  
 
  At the Information Sciences Institute (ISI), Dr. Knoblock leads a team of about 20 researchers, staff and students in developing intelligent techniques for rapid, efficient information integration. He focuses on constructing distributed, integrated applications from online sources through information extraction, source modeling, record linkage, constraint reasoning and other technologies for geospatial and bioinformatics data integration.  
 
  Dr. Knoblock is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a Distinguished Scientist of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), a Trustee of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), and past President of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). He has served on the Senior Program Committee of the National Artificial Intelligence Conference, among others, and is conference chair for the 2011 International Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI).  
 
  Dr. Knoblock has published Generating Abstraction Hierarchies (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993), along with more than 200 journal articles, book chapters and conference papers. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence. He also has been the primary advisor for more than a dozen Ph.D. students.  
 
  Dr. Knoblock was awarded his Bachelor of Science degree by Syracuse University, and his MasterŐs and Ph.D. by Carnegie Mellon University, all in computer science. He resides in Los Angeles, where he commutes by bicycle and referees kidsŐ soccer games.  
 
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