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Machine Self-Confidence in Autonomous Systems via Meta-Analysis of Decision Processes

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This paper has not yet been published, we are trying to find a good venue to publish in. We discuss the concept of Factorized Machine Self-Confidence (FaMSeC), and develop one of its components called Solver Quality ($x_Q$). Solver Quality and FaMSeC are examples of algorithmic assurances which I define in this paper. …


'Dave...I can asure you...that it's going to be all right' -- A definition, case for, and survey of algorithmic assurances in human-autonomy trust relationships

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This paper was just accepted to the ACM Computing Surveys (ACM CSUR) Journal today!! I’m really excited, and grateful to my co-author, and adviser, Dr. Nisar Ahmed. We put a lot of work into this document, and hope it will be useful to others. …


'I can asure you [...] that it's going to be all right' -- A definition, case for, and survey of algorithmic assurances in human-autonomy trust relationships

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Paper I wrote for my area examination. This is building off of work done by Austin Lillard, and Matt Aitken, as well as our advisors Nisar Ahmed, and Eric Frew. Thanks to Nisar Ahmed for extensive editing and review of this paper. This is only available as a pre-print right now. We plan to submit this work, in some polished form, to a journal in the near future. …


Towards Adaptive Training of Agent-based Sparring Partners for Fighter Pilots

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Selected as the “Best Graduate Student Technical Paper” by the Intelligent Systems technical committee. Presented in the student paper competition at SciTech in Fort Worth Texas on January 9th 2017. It contains some theoretical results from my work on an STTR with the AFRL. This paper has a primary focus on the aerial dog fighting application. …


Hybrid Repeat/Multi-point Sampling for Highly Volatile Objective Functions

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Presented at the BayesOpt workshop at NIPS 2016. It contains some preliminary theoretical results from my work on an STTR with the AFRL. This is mostly related to Bayesian optimization theory and not specifically for the aerial dog fighting application. …


CSciBox: An Intelligent Assistant for Dating Ice and Sediment Cores

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A link to the abstract on the AGU site. …


Generalized Laguerre Reduction of the Volterra Kernel for Practical Identification of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems

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Honestly, I can’t even find how to access the paper through AIChE, but here is a link to the meeting schedule, and the presentation (if you are interested in paying to hear to ramble). …