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John Yen

  • University Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
316B Information Sciences and Technology Building

University Park, pa 16802

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Education:

  1. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

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Research Interests
Intelligent Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing, and Bioinformatics
 
Biography
Dr. Yen is the University Professor of the College of Information Sciences and Technology. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Penn State in 2001, he was a professor of computer science and the director of the Center for Fuzzy Logic, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems at Texas A&M University. 

Dr. Yen has been a PI/Co-PI of two multi-million dollar research projects on intelligent agents: (1) a multi-million dollar project funded by Army Digitization Office to develop agent-based models that capture the knowledge and process of TOC (tactical operation center) for the purpose of simulation, training, and decision supports; and (2) a 3-million MURI project, funded by DoD/AFOSR, on developing agent-based teamwork model for training AWACS staff. He is also leading other research projects regarding agents and Web technologies through funding from Army Research Laboratory and Dell. 

He coauthored a textbook, "Fuzzy Logic: Intelligence, Control, and Information" (Prentice Hall, 1999). He was a Vice President for Publication for IEEE Neural Networks Council. Yen received the NSF Young Investigator Award in 1992. He is a Fellow of IEEE.
 
Selected Publications

  1. Yen, J., J. Yin, T. R. Loerger, M. Miller, D. Xu, R. A. Volz. August 2001. CAST: Collaborative Agents for Simulating Teamwork. Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-01). pp. 1135-1142. Seattle, WA.

  2. Widyantoro, D. H., T. Loerger, J. Yen. 2001. Learning User Interest Dynamics with a Three-Descriptor Representation. Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology (JASIST)52(3):212-225.

  3. Yin, J., M. S. Miller, T. Loerger, J. Yen, R. A. Volz. June 2000. A Knowledge-based Approach for Designing Intelligent Team Training ystems. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2000). pp. 427-434. Barcelona, Spain.

  4. Yen, J., L. Wang. February 1999. Simplifying Fuzzy Rule-based Models Using Orthogonal Transformation Methods. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. Volume 29, Part B, Number 1, pp. 13-24.

  5. Yen, J., J. Liao, B. Lee, D. Randolph. April 1998. A Hybrid Approach to Modeling Metabolic Systems Using Genetic Algorithms and Simplex Method. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. Volume 28, Part B, Number 2, pp. 173-191.