Engineer System

Jonathan King TashNovember, ****

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http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~tash/

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Tucson AZ 85712

(520) 320-9970Employment

Principal Engineer

Kontiki

Principal responsibility for core technology of industry leading system

for highly scalable distributed internet delivery of data and live streams

Designed and implemented:

algorithms for finding data sources that are optimal with respect to

network topology and system bandwidth constraints

protocols for secure data discovery and delivery

with dynamic congestion avoidance and NAT traversal

architecture for client and server delivery system components

As part of VeriSign (former owner of Kontiki):

winner of first annual VeriSign CTO Technical Excellence Award

Co-Founder

LandSonar

Designed and implemented algorithms for:

reverse geocoding GPS vehicle path data

detecting driver speeding incidents (SpeedGauge)

prediction and display of road speeds by time and date (LPS)

Patents:

7,356,392 System and method for evaluating vehicle and operator performance

7,610,145 System and method for determining recommended departure time

Algorithms Designer

Geocast Network Systems

Designed and implemented error correction coding scheme to protect data broadcast

Designed and implemented adaptive priority-based broadcast scheduler

Designed content and user aware cache management system

Codesigned transport protocol and DSP algorithms

Patents:

6,560,678 Maintaining information variety in an information receiving system

6,732,325 Error-correction with limited working storage

7,036,138 Method and apparatus for scheduling broadcast information

7,546,622 Method and apparatus for scheduling broadcast information

Artificial Intelligence Consultant

PersonalGenie

Designed algorithms for:

personalized matching of consumers and products

automated learning of matching parameters

Senior Research Scientist

Adaptive Systems Group, Harlequin

Designed and implemented:

adaptive online scheduler for parallel processing in digital printing (EP2000)

data abstraction tool for large database visualization (Watson)

structured text parser for information extraction (PowerIndexing)

geometric perspective module for improving special effects processing (PanOptica)

Consulted on:

simulation model speedup for catastrophic reinsurance industry

decision-theoretic artificial intelligence training for petroleum industry

Graduate Student Researcher for Professor Zadeh, Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley

Graduate Student Instructor

Mathematics: Calculus (UCB)

Philosophy: Logic (UCB)

Physics:

Quantum Mechanics (Caltech), Astronomy, Sound (UCSB),

Electricity and Magnetism (graduate, UCB and UCSB)

Research Assistant

for Professor Hill, University of Arizona

computer modeling of solar physics (to test general relativity)

implementation of statistical regression models

Computer Skills

Professional programming experience in C, C++, Java, Python, Perl, SQL, Common Lisp, Fortran

Operating system experience in Windows, Unix (several flavors), MacOS

Education

Ph.D. 1996 UC Berkeley Logic and the Methodology of Science

Cand.Phil 1991 UC Berkeley Logic and the Methodology of Science (GPA 4.0)

M.A. 1988 UC Santa Barbara Physics (GPA 4.0)

B.S. 1986 California Institute of Technology Physics and Mathematics (Honors)

Graduate Fellowships:

NSF Graduate Fellowship

NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program Fellowship

UCB Regents Fellowship

UCSB Special Fellowship

Undergraduate Scholarships:

National Merit Scholarship

Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Scholarship

Select PublicationsDissertation:

Decision Theory Made Tractable: The Value of Deliberation, with Applications to Markov Decision Process Planning

Advisors: Professors

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(Tash and Russell), Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1994. AAAI Press/ MIT Press, pp. 1079-1085.

Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1994. Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc., pp. 854-857.

Interpretation and Implications of Diameter and Differential Radius Observations of the 160 Minute Period Solar Oscillation

(Hill, Tash, and Padin), Vol. 304, 1986. pp. 560-578.

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