Monte Hancock

Monte F. Hancock, Jr.

Chief Scientist, Celestech, Inc.

Professional:

2009 – Present: Chief Scientist, Celestech, Inc.

http://www.celestech.com/

Essex Corporation purchased CSI in 2004. CSI’s portfolio of intellectual property for the sale showed 563 proprietary algorithms and applications. Of these, 543 were produced by Monte.

2004 – 2009: Technical Fellow, Chief Cognitive Research Scientist, Advanced Analytic Directorate (AAD), Essex Corporation; head of AAD Scientific Team

1987-2004: Chief Scientist, CSI Inc. (CSI was acquired by Essex in May, 2004)

Primary research interest is in artificial intelligence applications for data mining (pattern recognition, predictive modeling).

1982 - 1987: lead technologist for Knowledge-Based Systems Development, Harris Sector Technology Center, Harris Corporation, Melbourne, Florida

1979 – 1982: Software engineer, HRB-Singer Corp., State College, PA

Monte’s professional career spans over 30 years of increasingly responsible positions in software engineering, algorithm development, and technical leadership. This has culminated in his current position as Chief Scientist for Celestech, Inc., where his principal research interest is in numerical and semi-numerical algorithms for super-computing applications in machine intelligence and predictive modeling.

Other Corporate/Community Activities:

2010-present: Member of Industrial Advisory Board, University of Central Florida Advanced Technological Education Project, supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation

2001-present: Monte is Vice Chairman and Past Chairman of Home Education Recognition Organization, Inc., a 501(c3) corporation that manages a scholarship endowment for home-educated students.

2004-present: Founding Chairman, member of Board of Directors, Lydia’s Place (community social services network)

1991-present: Board of Directors, Ordained Elder, Church on The Rock Melbourne, Inc.

1986-1995: Four-term Vice Chairman, Monte served five consecutive terms as Chairman of the Florida Parent Educators Association, Inc. (currently 10,000 members in Florida).

Academic Career:

Monte did his undergraduate work in Mathematics at Rice University (BA, 1976), and his graduate work in Mathematics at Syracuse University (MS, 1977).

2004 – present: Monte is a founding member of the Florida Institute of Technology Computing Alliance (the University’s advisory board for instruction and research in computer science).

2005-present: Monte is a member and past Co-Chairman of the Computer Technology Advisory Committee for Brevard Community College.

1985-present: Rollins College, Winter Park, FL (Brevard Campus)

Adjunct Faculty, Mathematics and Computer Science

(1999 recipient of the Christa McAuliffe Teaching Award)

[one award is made annually, to a faculty or adjunct faculty member]

2001-present: Webster University, St. Louis, MO (Merrit Island Campus)

Adjunct Full Professor and Program Mentor, Masters Degree in Computer Science,

Space Coast Region

Adjunct Faculty in MBA Program

1997-2001: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Distance Learning Faculty (instructor and curriculum designer), Mathematics

1981-82: Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Adjunct Faculty, Computer Science

Courses Monte has taught recently include Software Engineering and Professional Practice, Probability and Statistics, Discrete Mathematics, Computer Science Research, and Topics in Mathematics: Advanced Mathematical Problem Solving Techniques

Monte is currently supervising several Masters’ Theses in Computer Science.

Monte is an alumni admissions interviewer for Rice University, Houston, TX.

Evaluator/Instructor, Florida Governor’s Gifted Student Program, 2001 - 2011.

Selected Inventions (trade secret):

2011: pending patent for distributed hierarchical machine reasoning architecture

2010: Linear-time non-monotonic adjudication algorithm

2009: hierarchical non-convex classifier

2008: high-dimensional performance manifold ray-tracer

2007: CELLO automated ontology builder

2007: CB and Vis_e N-dimensional viewers (non-NG developments)

2006: Markov Random Field feature winnowing application

2005: Adaptive Multi-paradigm multi-model classifier

2004: Eigen-compression hyper-dimension reduction engine

2003: Replicator Regression anomaly detector and data generator

2002: Go-C trainable multi-kernel multiple non-linear continuous regression

1987- 2000: core of Essex Advisor Toolkit (ATK), a comprehensive array of several hundred pattern processing algorithms/tools

1992: Taxonomic Radial Basis Function classifier

1987: N-dimensional Data Visualizer

1982: Multiplexed Covert Channelizer encryption algorithm

Selected recent assignments:

PI for SHOUT Program (RADAR image analysis)

Mathematical research for AMBER Program (forensic pattern analysis)

PI for speaker verification program, predictive modeling in a 70,000-dimensional feature space

One of nine PI’s, Novel Intelligence from Massive Data [exploiting concepts extracted from unstructured text]

PI for an image analysis program. Image pattern extraction, characterization, analysis, and predictive modeling [extracting and characterizing knowledge that can be extracted automatically from image data]

Expert consultant to the University of Central Florida for computer science curriculum design project funded by the National Science Foundation.

Notable:

Monte is cited in (among others)

“Who’s Who in the World” (2009-2012)

“Who’s Who in America” (2009-2012)

“Who’s Who in Science and Engineering” (2006-2012)

“Who’s Who in the Media and Communication” (1st ed.)

"Who's Who in the South and Southwest" (23rd - 25th ed.)

“Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers” (2006, 2007)

"Who's Who in Science and Theology" (2nd ed.)

At the invitation of the Executive Board of the Augmented Cognition International Society (ACIS), Monte is an official Charter Member of the ACIS Technical Group, which operates under the auspices of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES).

Monte was listed in the acknowledgements of a special issue for Aviation Space and Environment Medicine (ASEM) Journal on Cognitive Performance Enhancement Technologies to recognize the fact that he has “contributed to the establishment and/or advancement of the augmented cognition field, and we would like that contribution recognized.”

Monte is an ordained Elder of Church on the Rock, Melbourne, Florida

Book:

“Data Mining Explained: A Manager’s Guide to Customer-centric Business Intelligence”, published by Digital Press, January 2001. Co-authored with R. Delmater.

Currently writing Practical Data Mining under contract to CRC Press, to appear in 2011.

Book Chapters:

“Customer Profiling for Financial Services”, Chapter of Financial Services Information Systems, Auerbach, 2000; also appears as chapter of The Handbook of Technology in Financial Services, New Art Technologies, 1998

“Near and Long-Term Load Prediction Using Radial Basis Function Networks”, Chapter 13 of Progress in Neural Processing, vol. 5, World Scientific Publishing Co., 1996

“Estimating Dollar-Value Outcomes of Workman’s Compensation Claims Using Radial Basis Function Networks”, Chapter 23 of Progress in Neural Processing, vol. 5, World Scientific Publishing Co., 1996

National Committees:

2004 – 2009: Hercules White Team (algorithm review panel)

2004: Data Mining Methods Review Panel (National Science Foundation)

2002: Data Mining Comprehensive Capabilities List

Conference Committees:

Program Committees, 2009 - 2010 International Conf. on Data Mining (DMIN09, 10)

Technical Reviewer, 2009 53rd Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Conference

Program Committee, 2008 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN08)

Program Committee, 2008 5th International Augmented Cognition Conference

Currently an Augmented Cognition International Ambassador

Program Committee, Eighth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, (KDD2002)

Program Committee, Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, (KDD2003)

Session Chair:

Session Chair for Panel, “Helping the User Fail”, Third International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, AHFE2010, Miami, FLO, July, 2010

Session Chair for the Systems Session of the Eighth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2003).

Conference Tutorials:

“Common Reasons Data Mining Projects Fail”, Tutorial Notes of the Eighth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2003), Copyright ACM, 2002

“Avoiding Common Causes of Data Mining Project Failure”, Tutorial Notes of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM2002), Copyright IEEE 2002 “Data Mining: Technology and Practice in the Real World”, Tutorial Notes of the SIAM International Data Mining Conference (SDM2003), 2003.

Invited Panelist/Platform Speaker:

Five-person “Future of Technology and Business Panel”, plenary session, TELECOSM 2006, 10th Annual Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference, Olympic Valley, CA, October, 2006

Four-person “Data Mining Panel”, USCG Maritime Domain Awareness Force Requirements Capabilities and Technology Forum, “Data Mining and Anomaly Detection in the ‘Real World’ ”, June, 2006 Tampa, FL

Platform speaker at the 2004 NSA Data Mining Symposium: “Advanced Data Mining Techniques for Multi-Source Information Fusion”

Selected Papers/Tutorials:

In 2007, Monte supervised 14 students in the development of 7 poster papers/tutorials that were accepted for presentation at 2 international technical conferences.

Monte is a book reviewer for Wiley & Sons 2008 “Handbook of Technology Management”

M. Hancock, et.al., Helping the User Fail: Ergonomic Modalities and Distraction, presented at the 3rd International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, Miami, FL, July 2010, and published as chapter 16 of Advances in Cognitive Ergonomics, CRC Press, copyright 2011, ISBN 978-1-4398-3491-6

The journal article “An Ensemble Model of Visual Cognition with Applications to Scene Understanding” by S. Joe-Yen, M. Hancock has been accepted for publication in the NG Technical Review Journal.

S. Joe-Yen, M. Hancock, M. Richardson, “Automated Strategy Modification Using Real-time Tactical Information”, 5th International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems, and Applications (CITSA2008), Orlando, FL, June, 2008

M. Hancock, “A Cognitive engineering Methodology for Building Multi-Level Fusion Applications”, Northrop Grumman Data Fusion Conference, Aurora, CO, November, 2007

S. Joe-Yen and M. Hancock, “Exploiting Perceptual Effects In Rapid Serial Visual Presentation”, 3rd International Augmented Cognition Conference, Baltimore, MD, October, 2007

C. Sessions and M. Hancock, “Determinants for Global Cargo Analysis”, Defense Transformation and Net-Centric Systems 2007 Conference, SPIE International Symposium on Defense and Security, Orlando, FL, April ,2007.

M. Hancock and K. Pratt, “Image-Analytics Data Mining Results”, 2006 NPP Conference, Air Force Technical Application Center, Patrick AFB, FL, Sept. 2006

M. Hancock, C. Sessions, and S. Joe-Yen, “Novel Methods for Adjudicating Multiple Cognitive Decision Models”, 2nd International Augmented Cognition Conference, San Francisco, CA, October, 2006

Monte F. Hancock and John Day, “Exploring Human Cognition by Spectral Decomposition of a Markov Random Field”, 1st International Augmented Cognition Conference, July 2005, Las Vegas, NV

Monte F. Hancock, “Data Mining Technology and Practice in the Real World”, SIAM International Data Mining conference, May 2003, San Francisco, CA

Monte F. Hancock, "Avoiding Common Causes of Data Mining Project Failure", IEEE International Data Mining Conference, December 9 - 12, 2002 (ICDM 2002), Maebashi City, Japan.

Monte F. Hancock, “Common Reasons Data Mining Projects Fail”, Tutorial Notes of the Eighth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Copyright ACM, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Monte F. Hancock, "Customer Profiling for Telecoms: Using Advanced Modeling Techniques for High-Dimensional Data" presented to IBC Data Mining for Telecommunications Conference, 2000.