Peter C. Nelson, Doctor of Philosophy is an American Artificial Intelligence researcher and Computer Science professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and as of 2008 he has been the Dean of the College of Engineering.
Education
He received his Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and Mathematics from North Park University in 1984, and subsequently completed both his Master of Surgery in Computer Science from in 1986 and his Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science in 1988 from Northwestern University. International Union of Railways (UIC, French: Union Internationale des Chemins de fer)"s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, which he founded in 1991, has completed numerous projects in fields such as transportation, manufacturing, bioinformatics, e-mail spam countermeasures, and high-availability computer clusters facilitated by concurrent development of applied intelligence systems and heuristic search algorithms.
Career
Prior to assuming his deanship, he was head of the International Union of Railways (UIC, French: Union Internationale des Chemins de fer) Department of Computer Science. He has published over 75 scientific peer reviewed papers and received over $20 million in research grants and contracts on issues of importance such as computer-enhanced transportation systems, manufacturing, design optimization and bioinformatics. These projects have been funded by organizations such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, the United States. Department of Transportation, Argonne National Laboratory and Motorola.
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