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Kathryn B. Laskey

Associate Professor
SEOR Dept., MS4A6
George Mason University
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
703-993-1644
klaskey@gmu.edu
http://ite.gmu.edu/~klaskey/


Education
  • Ph.D, Carnegie­Mellon University, 1985
  • M.S., University of Michigan
  • B.S., University of Pittsburgh

Research
  • Bayesian inference and decision theory; multi-source fusion; uncertainty in artificial intelligence; situation assessment

Selected Articles and Book Chapters
  • "Multi-Entity Bayesian Networks for Situation Assessment," Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information Fusion, July 2002 (with E. Wright, S. Mahoney, M. Takikawa, and T. Levitt)
  • "Population Based Stochastic Search Algorithms," Machine Learning, to appear (with J. Myers)
  • "Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence", invited submission, Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2001 (with T. Levitt)
  • "Limited Rationality in Action: Decision Support for Military Situation Assessment," Minds and Machines, 10(1), 53-77, 2000 (with B. d'Ambrosio, T. Levitt, and S. Mahoney)
  • "Neural Coding: Higher Order Correlations in the Neurostatistics of Cell Assemblies," Neural Computation, 12(11), 2000 (with L. Martignon, G. Deco, M. Diamond, W. Freiwald and E. Vaadia)
  • "Network Engineering for Agile Belief Network Models." IEEE Transactions in Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2000 (with S. Mahoney)
  • "Taming Wilder Demons: Bayesian Benchmarks for Fast and Frugal Heuristics," in Gigerenzer, G., Todd, P., and the ABC Group. Simple Heuristics that Make us Smart Oxford University Press, 1999 (with L. Martignon)

Professional Activities
  • Member, Board of Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications, National Research Council
  • Co-editor, special issue on knowledge-data fusion, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2001-2002
  • Member, National Research Council Committee to Review the Scientific Evidence on the Polygraph (2001-2002)
  • General chair (2000) and co-program chair (1999) of Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence.
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1994-1999.

Professional Awards
  • · Career development fellow, Krasnow Institute, 1994-1997.

 


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