JONATHAN R. JACKSON

Current Address: Permanent Address:

**** ******** **. **** ***** Hollow Rd.

Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Germantown, TN 38138

412-***-**** 901-***-****

e-mail: abpnl5@r.postjobfree.com

homepage: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jrj/ OBJECTIVE

An electrical engineering position that tackles challenging problems, preferably

in, though not limited to, the following areas: applied research

& development, embedded systems, system verification, signal processing,

or systems integration.

EDUCATION

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Candidate for Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering,

expected graduation August, 2000. GPA: 4.0/4.0. Thesis: Using

Automatic Task Decomposition to Design Port-Based Adaptable Agent Software

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, Nashville, Tennessee

Bachelor of Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, double major in Electrical

Engineering and Computer

Science, May 1998. GPA: 4.0/4.0. Graduated 1st in class.

EXPERIENCEAugust 1998-present

Carnegie Mellon University.

As a Master's student, working on Port-based Adaptable Agents project.

Research focus is on using task decomposition to design adaptable software

for a team of heterogeneous mobile robots. Duties throughout graduate

school have included independent and group research and oral presentations

of research work.

Summer 1998

Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University

Programmer. Wrote LISP programs to automate grading of class

assignments for Dr. Doug Fisher's AI class.

September 1994 to May 1998

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University

Assistant computer lab administrator and lab monitor. Installed

new software. Supervised activities within lab. Administrated areas

of Windows NT network.

Summer 1997

Vanderbilt Undergraduate Summer Research Program

Worked on program to detect plagiarism on the Internet

ACTIVITIES and HONORS

Vanderbilt University Electrical Engineering Program Award(top graduating

EE) 1998

Barry M. Goldwater scholarship 1997-1998

Vanderbilt University's Dillard Jacobs and TOP TENN scholarships 1994-1998

Eta Kappa Nu, electrical engineering honor society 1997-present

Carnegie Mellon's Advanced Mechatronics Lab 1998-present

I.E.E.E. 1994-present

Vanderbilt Chapter

Secretary 1996

Tau Beta Pi (Tennessee Beta Chapter) 1996-present

Tennessee Beta Chapter

Treasurer 1997

Vanderbilt Association for Computing Machinery 1995-1998COMPUTER SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows NT and 98, Linux.

Languages: proficient in Java, C, Common Lisp, MATLAB.

Experience with C++, Perl, Motorola 6811 and 68k assembly, Visual Basic,

Pascal, Fortran

Software packages: MATLAB, PSPICE, ViewLogic, Mathematica

SELECTED COURSES

Digital Signal Processing Linear Systems Robotic Manipulators

Agent-Based Systems Artificial Intelligence Pattern Recognition Theory

Applied Stochastic Processes Mechatronic Design Math Fundamentals for Robotics

Signal Processing and Communications Algorithms Microcontrollers I&II

Numerical Mathematics Data Structures Programming Languages

Operating Systems

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