Simon J. Perkins

Simon Perkins received the Ph.D. degree in artificial intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, U.K., in 1999. He held a postdoctoral position at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, from 1999 to 2001, and has been a Technical Staff Member since April 2001. His current research involves taking modern statistical machine learning methods (support vector machines, boosting, etc.) and finding ways to apply them to real-world practical problems in image and signal analysis. He has over 20 publications in the fields of machine learning, genetic algorithms, robotics, evolvable hardware, and computer vision.