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Contact Info:
Matt Knudson
Carnegie Mellon University
Silicon Valley
Building 23 (MS-11)
Moffett Field, CA 94035
Phone: 650-604-5022
Fax: 650-604-7029
Email: matt.knudson@sv.cmu.edu

Matt Knudson, Research Scientist

Areas of Interest:

Autonomous robotics, artificial intelligence, adaptive control, software engineering, static analysis, statistical verification

Education

B.S. Electronics Engineering, Oregon State University, 2005
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University, 2008
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University, 2009

Overview:

Dr. Matt Knudson is currently a research scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center with Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests are in autonomous and adaptable systems, particularly robotics and complex multiagent organizations. These include low-resource intelligent decision making processes for robot navigation and coordination methodologies for large heterogeneous multiagent systems, such as teams of exploration robots and distributed sensor networks. His expertise is in the fields of electronics and computer science, particularly artificial intelligence. Specifically, he develops representations for system states and actions, as well as algorithms that operate on such representations, for agents to make intelligent decisions with as little information as possible. In addition, he designs objective functions for agents that promote inherent coordination, without the need for communication.