Ronald Prescott Loui

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(preferred),

http://uisacad5.uis.edu/~rloui2/homepage.html

EDUCATION

University of Rochester

M.S. 1985, Computer Science.

Ph.D. 1987, Computer Science and Philosophy/Cognitive Science.

Advisor: Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. Funding: U.S. Army Signals Warfare Laboratory.

Harvard

B.A. m.c.l. 1982, Applied Mathematics: Decision and Control.

Also Intellectual History and Physics.

ACADEMIC POSTS

University of Illinois-Springfield. 2012-2015

Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the College of Liberal Arts and Science.

Washington University in St. Louis. 1988-2008

Associate Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering, tenured in 1994.

Affiliated with research centers (AI, Computational Intelligence, Semantic Control, and Semantic Network Hardware) and academic programs (Legal Studies/History, Linguistics, and Philosophy).

Stanford. 1987-1988

Postdoctoral Affiliate, Cognitive Science Program.

Loosely affiliated with CS, CSLI and SRI. Sponsors: Paul Rosenbloom (invite), David Israel (office), Patrick Suppes (seminar), Yoav Shoham (signature), Amos Tversky (committee). Funding: Sloan Fellowship.

INDUSTRY POSITIONS AND CONSULTING

VFormation: SF-based venture capital firm, 2011

Cleveland Clinic HVI: electronic medical records, inference monitoring, text-based datamining, 2008-2011

Cycorp Austin: semantic databases and natural language query, 2008-2011

Global Velocity St. Louis: string processing and machine learning on network FPGA's, 2001-2006

Streamsearch.com St. Louis: webserver log analysis and usability, 2000

Southwestern Bell/TRI St. Louis: call center expert systems, 1990-1992

McDonnell-Douglas St. Louis: real-time path replanning for F-18 fighter-bombers, 1989

Xerox PARC Palo Alto and Webster NY: device diagnostics and prediction, 1988

Rockwell Palo Alto: evidential reasoning, 1988

DEC Hudson MA: internet topology simulation and optimization, 1982

STUDENTS

*co-author, +thesis advisor or supervisor

Doctoral Students

+*Moshe Looks, Ph.D. Computer Science, 2007. Competent Program Evolution. External advisors D. Goldberg, B. Goertzel, and M. Pelikan. Also M.Sc., 2005, Program Learning with the Bayesian Optimization Algorithm. Currently a Google Scholar.

Nominated for the IEEE dissertation award.

+*Gadi Pinkas, D.Sc. Computer Science, 1992. Inference in Symmetric Connectionist Networks. External advisor D. Touretzky. Currently Head of CS & IT at Bar Ilan University ISRAEL.

Nominated for the ACM dissertation award.

+*Guillermo Simari, D.Sc. Computer Science, 1990. Mathematics of Defeasible Reasoning and Its Implementation. Currently Full Professor at Universidad Nacional del Sur ARGENTINA.

Nominated for the ACM dissertation award.

Visiting Postdoctoral Research Associates

*Fernando Tohmé, 1996-1997. Full Professor, Dept. de Economıa, Univ. Nacional del Sur ARGENTINA.

*Bart Verheij, 1996. Tenured faculty, Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen NETHERLANDS, Visiting Researcher at Stanford.

Doctoral Dissertation Opponent or External Committee Member

Arno Lodder, 1997, Maastricht U. Currently Full Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, U. of Amsterdam NETHERLANDS

George Ferguson, 1995, U. of Rochester. Currently Senior Lecturer, U. of Rochester USA

Gerard Vreeswijk, 1993, VU Amsterdam; also a postdoctoral visitor in 1995. Currently Assistant Professor, Dept. of Information and Computing Sciences, Universiteit Utrecht NETHERLANDS

Peter Eklund, 1991, U. of Linkoeping SWEDEN. Currently Head of PhD School, U Copenhagen DENMARK.

Doctoral Committee Memberships

James Moscola (CS) 2008

David Schuehler (CS) 2008

Dan Dooly (CS) 2002

Edi Tudoreanu (CS) 2002

Michael Devore (EE) 2001

Sanghyun Kim (Systems Science and Mathematics) 2001

Travis Cusick (Systems Science & Mathematics) 2000

Keith Koper (Earth and Planetary Sciences) 1998

Fan Yang (Systems Science & Mathematics) 1996

Nilesh Jain (CS/Medical Informatics) 1995

J. Andrew Fingerhut (CS) 1994

Yuanlan Wu (Systems Science & Mathematics) 1993

Rosanne Fulcomer Gamble (CS) 1992

Gene Freudenberg (Mathematics) 1992

Kanaan Faisal (CS) 1990

Victor Griswold (CS) 1990

Amol Joshi (Chemical Engineering) 1990

Master's-Level Visiting Research Associates or External Committee Member

Alejandro Javier García, 1997. Currently Adjunct Professor, U. Nacional del Sur, Dept. de Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Computación ARGENTINA

*Carlos Iván Chesñevar, 1998. Currently Researcher, U. Nacional del Sur, Dept. de Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Computación ARGENTINA

*Ana Gabriela Maguitman, 1998. Currently Adjunct Professor, U. Nacional del Sur, Dept. de Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Computación ARGENTINA

Master's Thesis Students

*Adam Covington, 2006. Currently Research Associate at Stanford University

+*Andrew Levine, 2006. Currently Principal Developer at Digital Globe

*James Moscola, 2003. Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering at York College

Selected Undergraduate Research Students

*Jersey Chen, Yale MD, formerly Assistant Professor of Medicine, Yale

*William Chen, Berkeley PhD, Mathematics of Poker author and expert

*Barry Cynamon, Chicago MBA, Visiting Scholar at Federal Reserve Bank StL

*Adam Costello, Berkeley PhD, Software Engineer at Google Inc

*Mark Foltz, MIT PhD, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google Inc

+Diana (Moore) Neuman, VP and Security Expert at En Garde Systems

*Michael Pachos, Wharton MBA, Principal at Samsung Capital Ventures

*Stephen Sachs, Yale JD, Associate Professor of Law, Duke

David Saff, MIT PhD (on leave), Software Engineer at Google Inc

Selected High School Research Students

*Joe Altepeter, Illinois PhD, formerly Research Assistant Professor of EECS/Physics, Northwestern University

*Jessica (Linsday) Mikale, Missouri JD, Prosecutor for Missouri county

Kyle Ormsby, Michigan PhD, Instructor, Department of Mathematics, MIT and Assistant Professor, Reed

Eric Wofsey, Harvard PhD (in progress), Department of Mathematics, Harvard

RESEARCH

Funding

Applied Research: Grants of $563k, and $859k as co-PI for work on software-hardware co-design for document clustering and classification in multiple languages, sponsored by Global Velocity, SAIC, and AFRL ($1.4M total):

USAF Materiel Command MDA972-03-9-0001 2003-2005 with J. Lockwood

USAF Material Command MDA972-03-0001 2005-2007 with J. Lockwood, R. Pless, W. Smart

Fundamental Research: Grants of $199k, $120k, and $109k as PI and co-PI for work on models of negotiation and argumentation ($428k total):

NSF 9610122 1997-2001 with T. Sandholm

NSF 9503476 1993-1995

NSF 9008012 1990-1992

Research Education: Grants of $84k, $110k, $35k, and $35k as PI and coPI for summer research experiences for undergraduates (REU), sponsored by NSF, with $4k and $3k supplements ($271k total):

NSF 9415573 1995-1996

NSF 9123643 1992-1994

NSF 9102090 1991-1992

NSF 9000823 1990-1991 with W. Gillett

Research Symposia: Support of $10k, $3k, $3k and $2k from various sources for funding of academic symposia including NSF and McDonnell Douglas ($18k total).

Hardware donations: approximately $5k value from alumni, $300k for UIS Cyber Range from Global Velocity, 2013-2015 ($305k total).

Patents

J. Lockwood, M. Pachos, J. Moscola, and R. Loui. U.S. Patent application 5/21/02, 53047/9014 Methods, Systems, and Devices Using Reprogrammable Hardware for High-Speed Processing of Streaming Data to Find a Redefinable Pattern and Respond Thereto. Issued 8/15/06 as U.S. 7093023. Intellectual property basis for two licensing agreements, including Global Velocity's founding technology, St. Louis RCGA #1 Start-Up of 2003 and Missouri Technology company of the year 2008.

Provisional Patent (TF15052, 2015-053-01/PRO UIllinois) Methods for Securing Servers from Scanning Attacks, with R. Salvador and L. Caughey, 2014-2015.

Scholar.Google Citation Counts

Citations for top-12 papers (*single-authored): 598, 550, 322, 253*, 245*, 166*, 101, 75, 71, 63, 63, 58; h-index=20, 18 with co-author normalization, 13 since 2011

Publications

* scholar.google.com cited 1+

** scholar.google.com cited 10+

*** scholar.google.com cited 100+

(u) undergraduate co-author

Full Journal Articles

R. Loui, M. Ghasemisharif, Z. Zhao, H. Panday, and P. Bhamidipati. Three human factors projects resulting from data integrity experience with a large clinical database: outlier warnings, auto-selecting fields, and controlled meta-language, under review at Biomedical Engineering and Computational Biology, special supplement on Big Data Analytics for Health, 2015 (invited).

R. Loui. Against narrow optimization: an argument-based, path planning, and variable multiattribute model for decision and risk, Journal of Logics and their Applications, accepted conditionally on revision, 2015.

R. Loui and T. Loui. How to survive a cyber Pearl Harbor, IEEE Computer, accepted, to appear, 2015.

R. Loui. In praise of scripting: toward a real programming pragmatics, IEEE Computer 41, 2008.**

R. Loui. A citation-based reflection on Toulmin and argument, Argumentation 19, 2005 (invited).**

C. Chesnevar, A. Maguitman, R. Loui. Logical models of argument, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computing Surveys 32, 2000.***

R. Loui. Process and policy: resource-bounded non-demonstrative argument, Computational Intelligence 14, 1998. WU CS TR 92-43, 1992.***

R. Loui and J. Norman. Rationales and argument moves, Artificial Intelligence and Law 3, 1995. WU CS TR 93-03, 1993.***

R. Loui. How a formal theory can be normative: interpretation vs. implementation, Journal of Philosophy 90, 1993.*

G. Simari and R. Loui. A mathematical treatment of defeasible reasoning and its implementation, Artificial Intelligence 53, 1992. WU CS TR 89-12, 1989.***

R. Loui. Argument and belief: where we stand in the Keynesian tradition, Minds and Machines 1, 1991 (invited).**

R. Loui. Defeat among arguments: a system of defeasible inference, Computational Intelligence 3, 1987. UR CS TR 190, 1986.***

R. Loui. Nozick's acceptance rule and the lottery paradox, Analysis 47, 1987.*

R. Loui. Temporal evolution of beliefs and beliefs about temporal evolution (response to Hanks and McDermott), Cognitive Science 11, 1987.**

R. Loui. Decisions with indeterminate probabilities, Theory and Decision 21, 1986.**

R. Loui. Real rules of inference: acceptance and non-monotonicity in AI, Communication and Cognition - AI 5, 1988. UR CS TR 191, 1985.*

R. Loui. Optimal paths in graphs with stochastic or multidimensional weights, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM) 26, 1983. Undergraduate thesis, s.c.l. UR CS TR 115, 1982. Translated and reprinted in Bit (Japan), 1984.***

Other Journal Columns, Reviews, Introductions, Letters, and Newsletters

R. Loui. Scientific and legal theory formation in an era of machine learning: remembering background rules, coherence, and cogency in induction, American Philosophical Association (APA) Philosophy & Computers 14, 2014 (invited).

R. Loui. Paths to defeasibility: reply to Schauer on Hart, American Philosophical Association (APA) Philosophy & Computers 12, 2013 (invited).

T. Bench-Capon, et al., including R. Loui (24 authors). A history of AI and Law in 50 papers: 25 years of the international conference on AI and Law, Artificial Intelligence and Law 20, 2012 (invited).**

R. Loui. A modest proposal for annotating the dialectical state of a dispute, SCRIPT ed Journal of Law, Technology & Society 5, 2008 (invited).*

R. Loui. Comment on the Cardozo conference on graphic and visual representations of evidence and inference in legal settings, Law, Probability, and Risk 6, 2007 (invited).*

E. Rissland, K. Ashley, and R. Loui. AI and Law, a fruitful synergy, Artificial Intelligence 150, 2003.**

R. Loui. Review of Jaap Hage's Rules and Reasons, Artificial Intelligence and Law 8, 1999 (invited).

R. Loui. Review of Henry Prakken's Logical Tools for Modelling Legal Argument, Journal of Symbolic Logic 64, 1999 (invited).

R. Loui. Review of Brian Smith's Origin of Objects, Artificial Intelligence 106, 1999 (invited).*

R. Loui. Review of Meyer and Wieringa: Deontic Logic in Computer Science, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computing Reviews 37, 1996 (invited).

R. Loui. Why gawk for AI? Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (ACM SIGPLAN) 32, 1996 (invited).*

R. Loui. Models of deliberation in the social sciences (strategic directions in AI), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computing Surveys 27, 1995 (invited).*

R. Loui. Report on The Workshop on Computational Dialectics, AI Magazine 16, 1995 (invited).*

R. Loui. Foucault, Derrida, Women's Speaking Justified, and Modelling Legal Argument, a review of The Rhetorical Tradition: readings from the classical times to the present, and Henry Prakken's Logical Tools for Modelling Legal Argument, Artificial Intelligence and Law 3, 1995 (invited).*

R. Loui. Kyburg and Volkswagens, Computational Intelligence 10, 1993 (invited).

R. Loui and J. Dorosh(u). Edited partial transcription of The Workshop on Defeasible Reasoning with Specificity and Multiple Inheritance, Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (ACM SIGART) 2, 1991. WU CS TR 90-35, 1990.*

R. Loui. Report on The Workshop on Defeasible Reasoning with Specificity and Multiple Inheritance, AI Magazine 11, 1991 (invited).

R. Loui. Review of Harman's change in view, Artificial Intelligence 32, 1987.

R. Loui. Response to M. Henig on optimal paths, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM) 28, 1985.

R. Loui. On spelling error detection, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM) 24, Forum, 1981.*

Conference Articles Fully Peer Reviewed/Refereed

R. Loui. An easily adopted markup discipline for annotating electronic medical records with ontological and epistemological qualification: toward disciplined asterisks, parentheticals, marginalia, footnotes, and hashtags, Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Health Informatics (ICHI), 2015.

R. Loui, D. Dozier(u), E. Barber(u), P. Bhamidipati, J. Harish, Auralization of process and port status using program binaries to generate semantically meaningful non-fatiguing noise as canonical sound signals," Proc. IEEE Electro Information Technology (EIT), 2015.

A. Ratner and R. Loui. High speed identification of language and script, Workshop on Data Stream Mining and Management (DSMM), Proc. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2007.

M. Looks, A. Levine, G. A. Covington, R. P. Loui, J. W. Lockwood, Y. H. Cho. Streaming hierarchical clustering for concept mining, Proc. IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2007.**

A. Levine, R. Loui, J. W. Lockwood, Y. H. Cho. Sensitivity analysis of gigabit concept mining system, Proc. IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2007.*

S. Eick, J. Lockwood, R. Loui, et al. (8 authors), Hardware accelerated algorithms for semantic processing of document streams, Proc. IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2006.**

R. Loui. A mathematical comment on the fundamental difference between legal theory formation and scientific theory formation, Proc. Computational Models of Scientific Reasoning and Applications (CMSRA), 2005.*

J. Lockwood, S. Eick, D. Weishar, R. Loui, et al. (8 authors) Transformation algorithms for data streams, Proc. IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2005.**

M. Looks and R. Loui. On game mechanisms and procedural fairness: preliminary framework, Proc. Intl Conf. Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX), 2005.

M. Looks, R. Loui, and B. Cynamon(u). Dynamics of rule revision and strategy revision in legislative games, Proc. Intl Conf. Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX), 2005.

J. Moscola, M. Pachos, J. Lockwood, R. Loui. FPsed: a streaming content search-and-replace module for an internet firewall, Proc. Hot Interconnects (HotI), 2003.**

J. Moscola, J. Lockwood, R. Loui. Implementation of a content-scanning module for an internet firewall, Proc. Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), 2003.***