Jesse T Palma
Curriculum Vitae


EDUCATION

'06-(11)
  Boston University www.bu.edu
  Doctorate Candidate in Cognitive and Neural Systems cns.bu.edu
      Dean's Scholarship
      CELEST Research Assistantship
      Research Advisor: Stephen Grossberg
'99-03
  University of Pennsylvania www.upenn.edu
  Bachelor of Arts in Cognitive Science
      Cum Laude with Distinction
      GPA: 3.5/3.8
      Minors in Computer Science, Philosophy and Physics

      Honors Thesis "Evolving Minds" Genetic Evolution of Pulsed Neural Network Agents in a Simulated Environment
      Class of 1954 Scholarship
      Worcester Community Foundation Scholarship
      Member of University Science and Technology Organization STWing


RESEARCH


'03-Present
  The MITRE Corporation www.mitre.org
  Senior Software Systems Engineer
      Decision Support, Model Driven Architecture, Visualization & Collaboration Research
      FY'06
      Nomadic Collaboration Research Proposal Proposal refinement for assymetric groupware
      SIMAN Experiment Release 2 Project Lead & Engineer (3-4 Team) for research on integration of tracking software into Air Force security architecture
      FY'05
      Decision Engineering Proposal Proposed cognitive HMI research inspired by Gladwell's "Blink", earned Spot Award
      SIMAN Experiment Release 1 MDA Engineer for research on integration of the tracking software into Air Force security architecture
      Model Driven Architecture TEM Presentation Presentation on MDA and KC iUML at a MITRE Full-day event
      FY'04
      Air Force Mission-Driven Prototype Sensor scheduling research with Doug Jensen www.real-time.org
      Nonlinear Visualization Research
'00-02
  Technical Internship
      Miscellaneous Prototypes

'02-03
  Institute for Research in Cognitive Science www.ircs.upenn.edu & Linguistic Data Consortium ldc.upenn.edu
  Text Annotation for Biomedical Information Extraction
      Mining the Bibliome Project bioie.ldc.upenn.edu


'99
  Enterprise Computing Institute Inc www.ecii.org (Now Syniad LLC www.syniad.net )
  Software Engineer Internship
      Expert Fuzzy Logic System Design and development of tool for constructing multi-layer networks of fuzzy logic relational mappings and network optimization via a genetic algorithm


RECENT CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE

    2006 MIT Life Sciences Conference, Challenges and Opportunites in Neuroscience (MIT ILP)   Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
    Ninth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems   Boston University, Boston, MA
    2005 Scalable Vector Graphics Open   University of Twente, Enschede, NL