| 18) Genshe Chen, Erik Blasch, Fusion Evaluation over dynamic data and intelligent targets (yAB1y)
--This session will bring together a set of papers where the authors are exploring experimentation, testing, metrics, methods, and fusion algorithms to support dynamic processing. Various developments in space, cyber, and geospatial (GIS) products can be leveraged for traditional targeting analysis. --Genshe Chen received the B. S. and M. S. in electrical engineering, Ph. D in aerospace engineering, in 1989, 1991 and 1994 respectively, all from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, P. R. China. He did postdoctoral work at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Wright State University from 1994 to 1997. He worked at the Institute of Flight Guidance and Control of the Technical University of Braunshweig (Germany) as an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow and at the Flight Division of National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan as a STA fellow from 1997 to 2001. He was a Research Associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of The Ohio State University from 2002 to 2004. He was the program manager in Networks, Systems and Control at Intelligent Automation, Inc. from Feb 2004 to 2007. Currently Dr. Chen is the Vice President and CTO of DCM Research Resources LLC, Germantown, MD, at where he directs the research and development activities for the Government Services and Commercial Solutions. His technical expertise includes game theoretic estimation and control, ATR and tracking, threat prediction and information fusion, array signal processing, guidance and control of manned and unmanned vehicles, GPS/INS/image integrated navigation system, computational intelligence and data mining, hybrid system theory and Markov chain, signal processing and computer vision, biometrics, Bayesian network and influence diagram, social network analysis, simulation and training, and GIS. --Erik P. Blasch is currently a Fusion Evaluation Program Manager for the US Air Force Research Laboratory, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Wright State University teaching classes in Fusion, communications theory, and stochastic processes, and a Reserve Officer with AFRL/AFOSR. His basic research includes : fusion, tracking, automatic target recognition . For ISIF, he has been a member of the board, treasurer, given fusion tutorials, web-site manager, lead the sponsors program, coordinated the board elections, drafted an initial set of bylaws, and on the ISIF editorial board, as well as the 2007 president. He is a SPIE International Society for Optical Engineering fellow. He has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Wright State University (WSU-99) in Dayton, OH researching simultaneous tracking and identification. He has master's degrees in business ('98), economics('99), psychology('00), and electrical engineering('97) from WSU. He completed the first year of medical school and ABD in a PHD from UW in mechanical engineering(95-97) until called to active duty at Wright Patterson Air Force base. He has master's degrees from Georgia Tech in industrial engineering ('95) and mechanical engineering('94) and completed his bachelor's work at MIT in mechanical engineering and economics('92) researching robotics, solar cars, and bio-instrumentation. |