Senior Research Scientist
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw (Ph.D., Cognitive Science, University of Washington) is a Senior Research Scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) where he leads the research group developing the KAoS policy and domain services framework. With Marco Carvalho, he co-leads the development of the Luna Agent Framework and the IHMC Cyber Framework, designed to address requirements of situation awareness, anticipation, responsiveness, teamwork, and efficiency of large distributed network operations centers at a national scale. Formerly, he led research groups at The Boeing Company and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Jeff has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the European Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Engineering (EURISCO) in Toulouse, France; a visiting professor at the Institut Cognitique at the University of Bordeaux; is former chair of ACM SIGART; and former chair of the RIACS Science Council for NASA Ames Research Center. He served as a member of the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Military and Intelligence Methodology for Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience Research in the Next Two Decades , was an advisor to the HCI and Visualization program at the German National AI Research Center (DFKI), and was a scientific advisor to the Japanese NEC Technology Paradigm Shifts initiative. He currently serves as a member of the Board on Global Science and Technology for the National Academies and as an external advisory board member of the Cognitive Science and Technology Program at Sandia National Laboratories. He is an Honorary Visiting Researcher at the Center for Intelligent Systems and their Applications and AIAI at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, a member of the Graduate Faculty at the Florida Institute of Technology, a faculty associate at the University of West Florida, a member of the Technical Committee for IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics, the IFIP Working Group on HCI and Visualization, and for the Aerospace Human Factors and Ergonomics of the IEA. Jeff served for over a decade on the Board of Directors of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. In 2011, he received the Web Intelligence Consortium Outstanding Contributions Award.
Recently, Jeff served as co-program chair for the IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2011), as co-program chair for for Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2008), as Program Vice Chair of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Human-Machine Systems (DHMS 2008), and as co-General Chair of the 2009 International Conference on Active Media Techologies (AMT). He co-founded and organized the Human-Agent-Robot Teamwork Workshop series (HART), whose most recent meeting was held in December 2010 at the Lorentz Center in Leiden, The Netherlands. He is on the editorial board of Schedae Informaticae, and the Web Intelligence Journal, and was formerly on the board of the Web Semantics Journal, the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, the Knowledge Acquisition Journal and the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. With Robert Hoffman and Ken Ford, he serves as co-editor of the Human-Centered Computing Department for IEEE Intelligent Systems.
In partnership with Autodesk Research, Jeff leads IHMC participation in the Advanced Technologies for Life-Cycle Management of Sustainable Building Performance initiative and is a member of the Parametric Human Consortium. He led the DARPA and NASA-funded ITAC study team “Software Agents for the Warfighter” and has participated in NASA Blue Sky Study Groups for the “Human-Centered Vision of Mars Exploration” and for the “Small Pressurized Rover,” as well as the AFRL Blue Sky study on “Improving Understanding of Complex Information.” From 2002-2006, KAoS was used as part of a NASA series of annual two-week field tests of human-robot teams performing simulated planetary surface exploration at the Mars Desert Research Station in the Utah desert. Jeff was sponsored by DHS to undertake detailed simulation studies of the use of human-robot teams to secure facilities at Port Everglades. He has also led the ONR-sponsored NAIMT and Coordinated Operations projects where a team of humans and heterogeneous robots performed field exercises at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, aimed at port reconnaissance, and robot-assisted detection and apprehension of intruders. Among many other publications, he edited the books Knowledge Acquisition as a Modeling Activity (with Ken Ford, Wiley, 1993) and Software Agents (AAAI Press/The MIT Press, 1997).
Jeff and his wife Kathleen are the parents of four children and four grandchildren. He is a former bishop in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and currently serves as a counselor in the Pensacola stake presidency ( http://mormon.org/me/2951/ http://mormonscholarstestify.org/762/jeffrey-m-bradshaw . ). Jeff has written a highly-acclaimed scholarly commentary on the first chapters of Genesis entitled In God’s Image and Likeness (http://www.imageandlikeness.net/about.php . ).