I'm a research scientist in intelligent systems at ISI. I did my PhD at Carnegie Mellon University. I work in the Knowledge Capture group with Yolanda Gil, Jihie Kim, Tim Chklovski, Varun Ratnakar and others.
My research interests include knowledge acquisition, planning, applying knowledge-based techniques to improve usability of Grid systems and social networks. Within the knowledge capture group, I currently work on the Tailor project. Previous projects include Paws, Pegasus, Cognitive grids and Constable.
Here are most of my publications, many of which are also linked to the relevant project pages.
I am co-chair of the Workflow management research group in the Global Grid Forum.
In 2005 I co-organized a workshop at AAAI on planning and scheduling for web services, Grid and autonomic computing. This follows on from two successful workshops at ICAPS, one that I organized in 2004 and one that Jose Luis Ambite organized in 2003.
In 2005 I was poster session chair for ICAPS 05, treasurer for K-CAP 05 and on the senior program committee for AAAI 05. I was also on the program committee for IUI 05, and previously served on program committees for AAAI, IJCAI, ICAPS, AIPS, EWSP, K-CAP, UAI and others.
In fall 2002 I taught Artificial Intelligence Planning, along with Yolanda Gil and Jose Luis Ambite. (I taught this course in Fall 2000 with Yolanda and Jon Gratch and in Fall 98 with Craig Knoblock.)
Here's an old page for my wife, Cathy, who is an associate professor at Loyola Marymount University.
Our daughter, Allison Margaret Blythe was born on January 24th 99. (This page may take a while to load because of the growing collection of pictures..)
I also like to play squash, but
I've yet to join a club out here in LA. If you have any suggestions, please
let me know.