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Biography:
Una-May O'Reilly Principal
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Una-May is a Fellow of the International Society of Genetic and
Evolutionary Computation, now ACM Sig-EVO. She holds a B.Sc. from the
University of Calgary, and a M.C.S. and Ph.D. (1995) from Carleton
University, Ottawa, Canada. She joined the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
as a Post-Doctoral Associate in 1996. Currently a principal research scientist at CSAIL, Una-May is leader of
the Evolutionary
Design and Optimization (EVO-DesignOpt) group. EVO-DesignOpt focuses on
the development and application of evolutionary algorithms in tandem with
convex optimization and machine learning techniques for solving a spectrum of
engineering and AI problems within the realms of Architecture, sensory
evaluation, networks, circuits, embedded systems and parallel
high-performance systems. Una-May serves on the executive board of the ACM Sig-EVO. She was chair of
the Genetic Programming track at GECCO 2003, co-chair of the 2004 European
Conference on Genetic Programming and was chair of GECCO in 2005. She has
served on the GECCO business committee since 2008. She co-led the 2006 and
2009 Genetic Programming: Theory to Practice Workshops. She is an associate
and action editor of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, and MIT
Press Journal of Evolutionary Computation, and action editor for the Journal
of Machine Learning Research. Una-May has a patent pending for a original genetic algorithm technique
applicable to internet-based name suggestions. Una-May served as VP of Technology at Icosystem Corporation from Sept 2006
to June 2007. There she directed the development of Nymbler.com.
Una-May led a project on electronic modulation of solid state white
lighting concerned with energy efficiency, integrated sensing and lighting
design from 2005-2007. Dr. Maria R. Thompson completed her PhD on this
subject in January of 2007. Osram-Sylvania is respectfully acknowledged for
their partial sponsorship of this project. Una-May was a co-investigator on the DARPA ACIP Cearch project from 2005-2006.
In 2003 Una-May played a technical management role in the coordination,
integration and software design of Cardea, a Segway-based mobile humanoid
robot that pushed open doors. She developed robot architectures and
coordinated robot platforms and reporting under the MIT CSAIL's Humanoid
Robotics Group's 4 year DARPA Mobile Autonomous Robot Software project on
Natural Tasking of Robots Based on Human Cues. She was featured as a
"Real Scientist" on PBS's DragonflyTV. See a short video here. In 1998 Una-May co-founded the Emergent Design group with Prof. Peter
Testa and Devyn Weiser (formerly of the MIT School of Architecture, now of
Testa Architecture & Design). She acted as the group's consultant on
computer science and computational design and was responsible for a series of
design tools, the most recent of which is Genr8. Genr8 (an open software
product) is currently used by Architectural Association School of Architecture
(London, UK) graduate design programme in Emergent Technologies and Design.
She has given invited lectures on Emergent Design at Adaptive Computing and
Design in Manufacturing : Plymouth, UK, 2000, the Communications and Content
Forum: Umea, Sweden, 2001, Experimenta Design: Lisbon, Portugal, 2003, the
Congress on Evolutionary Computation: Portland, 2004, the Kennon Symposium at
Rice University School of Architecture, 2004 and the 4th International
Symposium on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Kitakyushu, Japan, 2004. |