*This page presents other evidence of my professional capacity in computer science as required for the ICS Ph.D. Portfolio.
ICS 211 Introduction to Computer Science II
ICS 314 Software Engineering I
ICS 361 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Programming
ICS 321 Database Systems I
ICS 462 Artificial Intelligence for Games
ICS 451 Data Networks (Over 3 consecutive semesters)
I have focused most of my efforts in research towards the HI-SEAS experiment. I have been working on my own research into forecasting energy consumption in the habitat and its relationship with the crew emotional state. Thus far I have published:
1 Masters thesis
2 journal articles (peer review)
7 Conference papers
2 Technical Documents
Please see my CV or Evidence of Scholarly Ability
I was a participant in the first HI-SEAS study as a Crew Engineer and I lived in the dome for four months. Upon taking up the position as Graduate Assistant to Dr. Binsted, I helped operate and run next 4 experiments. This involved a lot of travel between Oahu and the Big Island. I would stay on the BI for extended periods watching the crew, running multiple logistical operations for setting up/tearing down the experiments. It was a large job with a lot of scientific studies happen that we had to ensure went as smoothly as possible. I also conducted my own research into forecasting energy consumption in the habitat and its relationship with the crew emotional state.
Please see Project HI-SEAS for more details
I created and deployed a robotic companion study for the HI-SEAS experiment. I obtained and reprogrammed the robots myself, helped design the experiment, and collected data on the crew members. I then presented the results at the 15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON UBIQUITOUS ROBOTS in 2018, which was then published in the conference proceedings.
Please see Project Robot Companion for more details.
The Centaur Sentry Robot was a project I worked on at the University of Calgary. I designed and developed a robotic platform for the purpose of security patrol applications in remote work areas. I conducted a lot of R&D looking at the economic feasibility of the application and also conducted interviews with security companies to see what their interest level was, and how much of a market existed. Based on their needs I designed the robot and built it to the point where it was ready to be sent for production.
Please see Project Centaur for more details.
The Prairie Dog is a robot platform I build while I was serving as a Combat Engineer in the Canadian Forces. I was seeing a number of my friends coming home with the bottom of one or both their legs missing from anti-personnel mines when they were checking areas for Improvised Explosive Devices (IED). I wanted a remote camera to be able to drive up to a dangerous location and have a look around prior to myself walking up. I self-taught myself about robotics and constructed a small robot platform which came to be known as ‘Prairie Dog’. I managed to finished the robot and bring with me to Afghanistan and used the robot in an operational setting.
Please see Combat Field Trials for more details.
While in-between training sessions in the Canadian Army, I was placed in a small team to help develop a training video game called Canadian Forces: Direct Action. It was a multiplayer FPS that we modeled to be like the training areas. Basically, soldiers were able to play the video game against each other prior to entering into the real training area. It had some interesting results such as soldiers having developed their own strategies among each other which went on display in the real training scenario. The game was produced on the Unreal game engine and I was helping program in the new equipment and modifying the physics of the weapons to make them more realistic to our own. I also used the video game to create movies of tactical formations using the AI characters in the game. These videos are still being used to train troops prior to deployment today.
More details can be found on my CV.