David Noelle

414 South Craig Street #204
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

(412) 688-0299

noelle@acm.org

Objectives

Active involvement in software research and development involving artificial intelligence, machine learning, artificial neural networks, and evolutionarily inspired algorithms.

Education

University of California, San Diego
Ph.D. in Computer Science & Cognitive Science
October, 1997 - GPA 4.00

University of California, San Diego
M.S. in Computer Science
June, 1992 - GPA 4.00

University of California, Los Angeles
B.S., cum laude, in Computer Science and Engineering
June, 1987 - GPA 3.62

Employment

10/97 - Present
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Conducted research on instructed category learning, confidence reports, and connectionist models of instruction following, category learning, cognitive control, working memory, conflict monitoring, and prefrontal cortex. Advised by James L. McClelland and Jonathan D. Cohen.

1/99 - 5/99
Carnegie Mellon University Department of Psychology
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Taught the combined undergraduate and graduate course "Introduction to Parallel Distributed Processing" which covers the fundamentals of artificial neural network modeling and the application of such modeling techniques to the understanding of cognitive processes.

6/94-9/95
HNC Software
San Diego, California

Development work on the Falcon artificial neural network based system for early detection of credit card usage fraud.

7/93-8/93
UCSD Summer Session
San Diego, California

Teaching of upper division Computer Science & Engineering department core course on the "Design and Analysis of Algorithms".

9/90-9/92
David Noelle Consulting
San Diego, California

Consultation and system generation using expert system shells and Lisp.

9/87-9/90
Inference Corporation
Los Angeles, California

Development of the ART (Automated Reasoning Tool) expert system shell including the object-oriented programming subsystem and user-interface development tools.

7/86-9/86
Great American Life Insurance Company
Los Angeles, California

Diagnosis and correction of errors in agent commission payment system using CICS and TSO on an IBM mainframe.

7/85-9/85
MAL Associates
Goleta, California

Code generation of database access and preprocessing routines for IBM PC compatible expert system for armored vehicle fire control system design.

7/84 - 9/84
Raytheon Company
Goleta, California

Performed system administration duties for electronic counter-measures software development project.

Honors

Bank of America Computer Studies award, UCLA Alumni Scholar, U.C. Regents Scholar, UCLA Dean's Honor List, Tau Beta Pi honor society, Teaching Assistant Excellence Award, NIMH National Research Service Award

References

Available on request.