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Phone: 813-382-4595

Email: mlong@acm.org

Distributed Intelligent Systems, Robotic Systems, Software Agents, Machine Learning, Multi-agent Systems, Knowledge Representation/Ontologies, Artificial Intelligence.

• Academic Skills: AI-based Mobile Robotics, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Software Engineering, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence.
• Programming Skills: C programming, Java programming, UNIX/Linux, Mac OS/X.

• Ph.D. program in Computer Science, University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida): Currently affiliated with the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue
• MS in Computer Science, November 2004, University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida): Thesis title: Creating a Distributed Field Robot Architecture for Multiple Robots Thesis advisor: Robin Murphy Thesis area: distributed robotics, mobile robotics, software architecture, distributed systems
• B.S. in Mathematical and Computer Sciences, May 1998, Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colorado): Area of Special Interest: Robotics

Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue, University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) January 2002-Present

Projects:

• Development of a distributed field robot architecture
• Distributed fault tolerance for teams of robots

Software Developer / Technical Lead, Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector, Wireless Systems, Application and Services (Austin, Texas) June 1998-January 2002

Projects:

• Development of Java 2 Microedition Virtual Machine.
• Experience porting VM to multiple embedded platforms.
• Experience with low-level graphics optimization.
• Design and implementation of compacting garbage collector.

Student Assistant, Center for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colorado) January 1997-May 1998

Long, Matthew T., Creating a distributed field robot architecture for multiple robots. Master’s thesis, University of South Florida, November 2004. [pdf]

"Application of the Distributed Field Robot Architecture to a Simulated Demining Task", Matt Long, Aaron Gage, Robin Murphy and Kimon Valavanis also to appear in "2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Barcelona, Spain". [pdf]

"Validation of a Distributed Field Robot Architecture Integrated with a MATLAB Based Control Theoretic Environment: A Case Study of Fuzzy Logic Based Robot Navigation", K. P. Valavanis, A. L. Nelson, L. Doitsidis, M. Long, R. R. Murphy also submitted to IEEE Robotics & Automation magazine. [pdf]

"Distributed Error Handling and HRI," B. Zimmel, M. Long, J. Carlson, R. Murphy, also to appear in 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2004. [pdf]

"Affective Task Allocation for Distributed Multi-Robot Teams", A. Gage, R. Murphy, K. P. Valavanis, M. Long also submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics. [pdf]

"Distributed Multi-Agent Diagnosis and Recovery from Sensor Failures," Long, M., Murphy, R., and Parker, L., also appears as IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems(IROS), Vol. 3, pp. 2506-2513, October 2003. [pdf]

• Association for Computing Machinery
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Conference Secretariat 2004 International Conference on Robotics and Automation
• Responsible for online paper submission and review process.
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics