Mini-Vitae for 2008 [Download Word Document ]

Name: Andrew Fagg
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Computer Science

Teaching
Spring:
CS 4163/5163 Embedded Systems 20
CS 5980 Research Masters Thesis 2
CS 5990 Independent Studies 1
ENGR 1420 Introduction to Engineering: Interactive Art Labor 50

Summer:

Fall:
CS 5980 Research Masters Thesis 1
CS 5990 Independent Studies 2
CS 6980 Research Drs. Dissertation 1
CS 5970 Empirical Methods for Computer Science 6


Thesis Completed
de Granville, C. (2008), Learning Grasp Affordances, Masters Thesis, School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma

Dissertations Completed
No data available

Advisees
Undergraduate:   4
  Graduate:   Masters: 4   PhD: 3

Awards and Recognitions
No data available

Research and Creative Activity
Conference Papers: Tingle, D.T., Fagg, A.H., Rennaker, R.L. and Zee, M.C. (2008) Decoding Odor from the Piriform Cortex Using a Free-Paced Classifier, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, student poster session (poster abstract only)

Journal Papers: Fagg, A. H., Ojakangas, G., Miller, L., Hatsopoulos, N. (2009) Kinetic Trajectory Decoding Using Motor Cortical Ensembles , to appear in the IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Ou, S., Fagg, A. H., Shenoy, P., Chen, L. (2009) Application of Reinforcement Learning in Multisensor Fusion Problems with Conflicting Control Objectives, Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, 15(2):277-289

de Granville, C., Fagg, A. H. (submitted), Learning Grasp Affordances Through Human Demonstration, submitted to the Journal of Autonomous Robots

Nemati, S., Hatsopoulos, N. G., Miller, L. E., and Fagg, A. H. (in revision) Constructing Robust Neural Decoders Using Limited Training Data

Patents: No data available
Refereed Book Chapters: No data available
Non-Refereed Book Chapters: de Granville, C., Wang, D., Southerland, J., Platt, Jr. R., and Fagg, A. H. (2009), Grasping Affordances: Learning to Connect Vision to Hand Action, ``The Path to Autonomous Robots; Essays in Honor of George A. Bekey'' (Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Ed.), Springer


Books
Authored Books: No data available
Co-Authored Books: No data available
Edited Books: No data available

Grants
External Funding: Funded Grants:

Funded Grant Number: 125-5471-00 Project Period: 5/1/05 - 4/31/09 Title: Development of a Bidirectional Brain Machine Interface, Sponsor: NIH (Northwestern University Subcontract); Total Award Amount: $580,494.00; Fagg Percentage: 100%; Fagg Total: $580,494.00

Funded Grant Number: 105-0911-00, Project Period: 1/01/08 - 12/31/10; Title: REU Site: Integrated Machine Learning Systems; Co-PIs: McGovern, A., Fierro, R., Hougen, D. F., and Lane, T., Sponsor: NSF; Award amount: $310,952; Fagg Percentage: 29%. Fagg Total: $90,176

Funded Grant Number: Project Period: Co-PIs: Fagg, A. H., McGovern, A., Brotzge, J. RI Small: Title: Automatically Learning Task Oriented Knowledge Representations Through the Spatiotemporal Multi-dimensional Relational Framework, Submitted to NSF/IIS/RI program; 3 years; $500,000; Fagg percentage: 33.3% Edit | Delete

Funded Grant Number: 105-0930-00; Project Period: 5/01/08 - 9/01/08; Title: REU Supplement: Integrated Machine Learning Systems, Co-PIs: McGovern, A. and Fagg, A. H., Sponsor: Oklahoma EPSCoR; Award amount: $5,000; Fagg Percentage: 50%. Fagg Total: $2,500

Submitted Proposals:

Submitted proposal: Project Period: 05/01/2009-04/30/2012; Title: RI Small: Automatically Learning Task Oriented Knowledge Representations Through the Spatiotemporal Multi-Dimensional Relational Framework; Sponsor: National Science Foundation; PI: Andrew Fagg; Total Amount Requested: $500,000; McGovern Percentage: 40%; McGovern Amount: $200,000.

Submitted Proposal: Fagg, A. H. and Brown, A. Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT): Traineeship in Symbiotic Media (preproposal); Submitted: 4/08; not accepted for full proposal submission

Internal Funding: Funded Grants:

Funded Grant Number: Brown, A. and Fagg, A. H. Presidential Dream Course: Smart Art Spaces, Office of the Provost, 1/1/09--5/15/09, $20,000; Fagg Percentage: 50%; Fagg Total: $10,000

Funded Project: Hougen, D. F. , Cheng, Q., McGovern, A., Dong, Y. and Fagg, A. H. Computer Science Graduate Fellowship Program, Graduate College and College of Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 08/06 - 05/15. I currently have 2 students funded under this program.

Funded Project: Landers, T., Enrico, E., Brown, A. and Fagg, A. H. Center for Symbiotic Media Research, Office of the Vice President for Research, and Colleges of Fine Arts and Engineering, 7/1/08--6/30/09, $55,000; Fagg Percentage: 50%; Fagg Total: $27,500


Presentations
National: No data available
Regional: Guest speaker, OU Zoology Seminar Predicting Dynamic Arm Motion from Motor Cortical Activity: A Step Toward Direct Control of Robotic Prosthetic Limbs, February 13, 2008


Service
University: Committee: ENGR 1410/1420 (Introduction to Engineering)

PhD Dissertation Committee Member: Matt Roman (AME)

PhD Dissertation Committee Member: Andrew Sloan (Bioengineering); Completed: 10/8

Department: Committee Member: Research

Committee Member: Publicity

Committee Member: Graduate Enrollment Management

Masters Thesis Committee Member: Lesheng Hua

Masters Thesis Committee Member: Md Sazzadur Rahman

Professional: Proposal review for the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF)

PhD Dissertation Committee Member: Ashvin Shah (University of Massachusetts, Neuroscience and Behavior); Completed: 8/8

Reviewer: Epigenetic Robotics conference

Reviewer and program committee: Humanoids conference

Reviewer: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Reviewer: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Reviewer and program committee member: Robotics Systems and Science workshop on ``Robot Manipulation: Sensing and Adapting to the Real World

Reviewer: Journal of Neurophysiology

Reviewer: Systems, Man and Cybernetics (journal)

Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Robotics (journal)

PhD Dissertation Committee Member: John Sweeney (University of Massachusetts; Computer Science)

Director, Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site on Integrated Machine Learning Systems (University of Oklahoma and University of New Mexico)

Instructor for the ``Interactive Art Workshop'' at the Global Conference on Educational Robotics (middle and high school students), July 8--11, 2008 (co-taught with Adam Brown)

Judge, Botball final competition

Instructor for the K20 Research Experience for Science Teachers Institute (middle school teachers), June 16--27, 2008 (co-taught with Amy McGovern)


Other Activities
No data available