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Maarten Sierhuis, Senior Systems Scientist and Adjunct Professor
Areas of Interest: multi-agent systems, simulation and human-robot interaction Education PhD 2001, Social Science Informatics, University of Amsterdam Overview: Maarten Sierhuis is senior scientist at NASA Ames Research Center and adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Silicon Valley campus. He currently is also a visiting professor in the Man-Machine Interaction group at Delft University of Technology. He has over 16 years of experience in agent-based simulations and multi-agent systems for mission operations. He is co-principal investigator for the Brahms project in the Work Systems Design & Evaluation group in the Collaborative and Assistant Systems area within the Intelligent Systems Division. Brahms is currently being used at NASA’s ISS Mission Control at Johnson Space Center for automating flight controllers. Sierhuis holds a doctorate in social science informatics from the University of Amsterdam (2001), in which he developed a theory for modeling and simulating work practice and researched the Brahms agent-oriented language for that purpose. He also has a BSc. degree in informatics from the Polytechnic University in The Hague, The Netherlands (1986). Prior to joining NASA, Sierhuis was a member of technical staff at NYNEX Science & Technology (1990-1997); earlier he was at IBM in New York and Sema Group in The Netherlands (1986-1990). He has presented invited lectures on Brahms, has published widely in this area and holds two software patents involving work practice simulation and hypertext databases. |