Vitae
Dr. Shashi Phoha is Head of the Information Systems Department at Penn
State's Applied Research Lab (ARL) as well as Professor of Electrical Engineering
at Penn State University where she has been since 1991. She received her
M.A. in Mathematics from Punjab University, India, in 1968 and her M.S.
in Operations Research from Cornell University in 1973 with the thesis
"Random Walk on a Connected Graph". In 1976 she received a Ph.D. from Michigan
State University with the thesis "Algorithms for Nonlinear Prediction".
Dr. Phoha's professional experience started in 1975 as Assistant Professor
of Mathematical Sciences at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, and Bucknell
University, Lewisburg, PA where she remained until 1978. In 1978 she joined
the Mitre Corporation in Bedford, MA, as Task Leader and IR&D Project
Leader. From there she went to ITT Defense Communications Division, Nutley,
NJ, in 1984 where she was Senior Scientist and Head of C3 Systems
Department until 1989. From 1990 to 1991 she worked as Technical Director
for Information Systems Engineering and Analysis at Computer Sciences Coporation,
Falls Church, VA.
Dr. Phoha has diverse experience in engineering, research and management
of advanced and developmental programs in DoD Information Systems. She
has led the development of the NII Testbed, an $11.5M/2 year project for
the diagnosis and prognosis of operating machinery. Drawing on her background
and multidisciplinary research collaborations, she has made outstanding
individual contributions to the scientific analyses of distributed information
for decision support, multistage coordination and intelligent control in
dynamic systems. She has pioneered the use of computational grammars in
the resolvability of analytical expressions (words) in formal languages
for hierarchical command and control of defense and manufacturing systems.
Funded by ONR, she is currently leading the development of an intelligent
controller for the Autonomous Ocean Sampling Network simulator of undersea
vehicles.
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