Mike Bobak - Research-Programmer / Knowledge-Engineer

704 Fairway  Champaign IL 61820  |  415-894-9724  |  mike.bobak@gmail.com | @MBstream

EXPERIENCE

AlohaHealthNet Sr Knowledge-Engineer 2017-present (remote)

Advising early stage startup built on the topic of my ucsf research.

NCSA.uiuc.edu Sr Research Software Engineer 2019-2023

- All the PoCs for earthcube.org/geocodes managed others to bring in a great NSF review 

- Focus on semantics/metadata search, with some NLP and sim. [Python/SPARQL…]

Agrible/Nutrien Sr Software Engineer 2018-19 (Champaign Il)

Planned & guided reworking the main simulation, & ML/verification

Freelance: Knowledge-Engineer/Ontologist 2011-2018 (San Francisco)
Semantics/data-sci consulting, including. IoT, CMS, pharma-ontologies.

Apollo Group: Architect, Adaptive Learning Platform 2010-11 (San Francisco)
Semantic annotation of tests and related study materials so needs could be surfaced.

UCSF: Programmer/Analyst III 2007-10 (San Francisco)
Semantic annotation of clinical trial entrance descriptions to automake induction.

Freelance: Knowledge-Engineer/Programmer 2001-07 (Chicago/Boston)
Brightware-like follow on rule-based consulting, including  Verizon and others.

Beckman Institute: Research Programmer 1998-2001 (Champaign)
Coordinated software teams to make an immersive intelligent simulation tutor.

Brightware: Knowledge-Engineer/Programmer 1996-98 (Chicago)
Helped design and did first install of an automated email answering system & more.

Institute of Learning Sciences: Lead Programmer/Analyst 1996 (Evanston)
Extended a model-based explainable simulation/Intelligent-Tutoring-System.

Argonne National Lab: Software Engineer 1993-96 (Argonne)
Wrote expert-system for EPA, then knowledge-guided distributed eco-simulation.

EDUCATION

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign — MS Biophysics/Combio/AI
Wrote well-used molecular viz/minip package. Thesis: Knowledge-Guided Simulation.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign — BS Physics, BS Biophysics
Included work at an allied lab, writing acoustics simulation, taking data & more.

SKILLS

• AI
• Artificial Intelligence Adaptive-Systems  Computational-Intelligence
• Business-Rules/Expert-Systems Case-Based-Reasoning Intelligent Agents/Systems
• Onto/Knowledge-Eng, Kn-Based-Systems Ontology/Taxonomy Dev Controlled Vocabularies Conceptual/Decision-Modeling Knowledge-Representation Logic-Programming
• Natural Language Processing/Understanding Text Classification SNOMED

Semantic:Web, Search Information Access/Extraction/Retrieval 

• Data Mining/Machine- Learning Data-Analysis
• Model-based-reasoning Composite Applications Causal Inference Intelligent- Tutoring- Systems
• Science
• Research Scientific Viz/Simulation 
• Computational-Science Math/(Bio) physics
• Others
• HPC/Cloud-Computing: Mapreduce/Hadoop Exploratory-Programming, Dynamic Languages,Common Lisp Python  etc.
• More details:
• http://mbcode.github.io/michael-bobak.html 
•  http://mike.bobak.googlepages.com/Mike-Bobak.pdf 
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