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Steve Schaffer
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Young, professional AI specialist and C++ enthusiast seeks exciting, attractive job with personality for entertainment, space, or military relationship.

Contact me at steve.schaffer@jpl.nasa.gov.
[ last modified: AD.2007.06.27:2159 - srschaff ]

Steven Schaffer

Contact

steve.schaffer@jpl.nasa.gov
http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/public/home/srschaff/

Work

M/S: 301-260
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109
818.354.8637

Home

72 N Bonnie Av #2
Pasadena, CA 91101
626.796.0165

Education

Graduate

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
MS Computer Science (in progress)
GPA = 4.00 (in progress)

Undergraduate

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
BS Computer Science (5/2001)
BA Chemistry (5/2001)
GPA = 3.60

High School

Grissom High School, Huntsville, AL
GPA = 4.27, 2nd in class of ~500 (5/1997)

Experience

(contact me for reference information)

Artificial Intelligence Research Programmer (2001 to Present)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Artificial Intelligence Group, Pasadena, CA
- Developed high level autonomy code for research rovers
- Applied planning technology to automate DSN antenna scheduling and control
- Investigated and implemented probabilistic planning infrastructures
- Researched multiagent planning coordination protocols
- Automated operations for EO1 spacecraft and sensorweb

Artificial Intelligence Research Assistant (Spring 2001)

Carnegie Mellon University: Gamebots Research Project, Pittsburgh, CA
- Helped develop agent-based research interface to Unreal game engine
- Fielded teams in annual Gamebots competition

Software Engineer Intern (Summer 2000)

Electronic Arts: Tiburon Studio, Orlando, FL
- Significantly enhanced and supported EA's menu scripting tool

Synthetic Polymer Chemist Intern (Summers 1998, 1999)

Shearwater Polymers, Huntsville, AL
- Synthesized and purified polyethylene glycol derivitives for research and industry

Selected Publications

(contact me for complete list or document pdfs)

Probabilistic Reasoning for Plan Robustness
Steve Schaffer, Steve Chien, Brad Clement
19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2005).
Edinburgh, Scotland. July 2005.

Validating the Autonomous EO-1 Science Agent
B. Cichy, S. Chien, S. Schaffer, D. Tran, G. Rabideau, R. Sherwood
International Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space (IWPSS 2004).
Darmstadt, Germany. June 2004.

CLEaR: A Framework for Balancing Deliberation and Reactive Control
F. Fisher, D. Gaines, T. Estlin, S. Schaffer, C. Chouinard
Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling (AIPS 2002): On-line Planning and Scheduling Workshop.
Toulouse, France. April 2002.

Gamebots: A 3D Virtual World Test-Bed for Multi-Agent Research
R. Adobbati, A. Marshall, A. Scholer, S. Tejada, G. Kaminka, S. Schaffer, C. Sollitto.
Second International Workshop on Infrastructure for Agents, MAS, and Scalable MAS.
Montreal, Canada. May 2001.

Awards

- NASA STAR Award (2001)
- CMU Computer Science Dean's List (1997-1999)
- National Merit Scholarship Finalist (1997)
- Tandy Technology Scholar (1997)

Skills and Course Work

- Data Structures, Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Robotics, Adv. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Multi-Agent Systems
- Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chem, Biochemistry, Thermodynamics, Quantum Chem, Computational Chemistry
- Relativity, Quantum Physics, Human Memory, Darwin as Literature, Religion and Science, Social Memory, Probability and AI

- Linux, Solaris, Windows, Mac, ...
- C++, C, Java, Perl, bash, C# ...
- Matlab, Mathematica, Maple, ...
- HTML, SSI, CSS, XML, XSLT, SQL, Flash...
- XEmacs, Latex, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, ...

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