Adam R. Nolan

CITIZENSHIP: USA

EDUCATION:

1989 - B.S. Physics, Miami University 1992 - M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Cincinnati

1996 - Ph.D. Computer Engineering, University of Cincinnati

EXPERIENCE:

2003- Senior Research Associate, Sheet Dynamics

Develop profiling and scheduling algorithms for the DSPdeveloper tool suite. Design optimized DSP algorithms for the ADI Blackfin series of DSP's.

2000-2003- Senior Software Engineer, LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier

Founding member of the Web Services for Remote Portals (WSRP) standards committee. Tech lead for the Portal Integration releases R1,R2,R3,R3. Proposed, designed and developed a robust integration package for accessing LexisNexis data from any Portal vendor's product. A member of the Electronic Product Development Architecture Team. Tech lead for the R2 release of the XAPI. Developer for the LNPortal R1 product, focusing on taxonomy specification. Developer of custom user interfaces for various clients.

1996-2000- Senior Scientist with DEMACO, a division of SAIC

Produced electromagnetic (EM) simulation software modules for the Xpatch product suite. Developed statistical target ID algorithms using both simulated and measured signatures. Implemented distributed processing algorithms on shared memory machines, message passing architectures, and workstation clusters. Designed interfaces for the FISC low

frequency EM simulation. Developed visualization tools for the urban propagation EM simulation. Defined an optimal ray trace representation for rapid regeneration of signatures under various target reconfigurations. Performed various signature analyses in support of multiple government programs.

1990-1996- Research Assistant with the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision Lab, U. Cincinnati

Designed AI based image classification algorithms under contract with General Electric Aircraft. Developed FLIR target identification algorithms using hierarchical neural networks under contract with Wright Laboratory. Designed and implemented optimized parallel image classification algorithms (on clusters of workstations) for inspection of aerospace components for NASA.

SKILLS:

* Expertise: Software Design utilizing Rational/SoDA, J2EE development (Websphere 3.x, 4.x), distributed computing, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, digital signal and image processing

* Languages: Java, C++/C, Motif, HTML, XML, XSLT, Perl, SQL, MATLAB, Tcl/Tk, CORBA, Fortran, Lisp.

* Development Environments: WSAD4, VAJ, Visual Cafe, VisualC++, Xemacs, Workshop

* Frameworks: Jakarta Struts, Apache Axis

* Build Tools: Ant, make, clearmake

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Web Services for Remote Portals Use Case Documentation. "LexisNexis News Push Use Case" http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/wsrp/documents/newsfeedusecase.doc, Adam Nolan.

Synthetic Signature Analysis via Ray Trace Decomposition, A. Nolan, J. Hughes, SPIE, Orlando FLA, April 1999.

Combining Measured Radar Signatures With Computer-Generated Signature for Aircraft Identification, J. Leonard, B. Denney, A. Nolan, G. Lai, R.J.P. deFigueiredo, ATRWG, Huntsville AL, October 1997.

Effects of Nondeterminism on the Predicted Speedup of Scheduling Low Level Computer Vision Algorithms on Networks of Heterogeneous Machines, A. Nolan, B. Everding, 5th International Conference on Parallel Computing, Ghent Belgium, September 1995.

Polynomial Time Scheduling of Low Level Vision Algorithms on Networks of Heterogeneous Machines, International Conference on Parallel Processing, A. Nolan, B. Everding, W. G. Wee, Stockholm Sweden, August 1995.

Automatic FLIR Target Recognition Using a Hierarchical Neural System, A. Nolan, W. G. Wee, J. Leonard, Proceedings of Architecture, Hardware, and Forward-looking Infrared Issues in Automatic Target Recognition, Orlando, April 1993.