| Technologist with broad technical knowledge and
entrepreneurial experience and mindset. Successful record of creating
innovation and bringing it to market. Fortune 500, Silicon Valley
start-up and academia work experience. |
|
|
Employment & Experience |
|
| 2005 - |
Senior Member of Research Staff |
| 2002 - 2005 |
Member of Research Staff |
|
Fujitsu Laboratories of America Inc., College
Park, MD |
|
|
Serves as a researcher for the corporate research
arm of a Japan-based, $40B revenue, global, IT company, tasked
with conceiving, prototyping and marketing internally and externally
new product solutions. Focus on Web technologies, Wireless technologies
and applications and Ubiquitous Computing. |
|
|
Leads the Universal Pervasive Transaction Framework
project, which enables secure transactions in wireless unsecure
environments using mobile devices. Product solutions include Wireless
Wallet, a solution for payments at both physical and virtual points
of sale and MobileID, a solution for consumer authentication.
Both solutions utilize existing mobile phones. |
|
Co-leads the Task Computing project, which enables
end-users to combine, on-the-fly, functionality from devices,
applications and services and execute complex tasks. Task Computing
became a core technology for new product offerings for the office
and home markets by a Fujitsu business unit. |
|
Filed approximately 10 patents covering these technologies. |
|
| 2000 - 2002 |
Director of Technology |
|
PowerMarket Inc., Belmont, CA |
|
|
Served as acting CTO, Chief Scientist and member
of the executive staff for an enterprise application software
(supply chain), VC-funded (~$26M), start-up company. |
|
|
Joined as employee #5, prior to first financing
round. Participated in the development of the PRD, MRD and the
architecture and design of company product solution. Co-managed
the ISV licensing process for PowerMarket, including negotiating
and structuring long-term agreements. Managed technology partnerships
and collaborations with other companies. Performed technical evaluation
of companies and products for purchasing, partnering and acquisitions.
Recruited and managed the company Technical Advisory board. Recruited
company's Intellectual Property counsel and managed PowerMarket's
IP and short-term and long-term IP strategy. Was main inventor
for four filed patents. |
|
| 1999 - 2001 |
Visiting Assistant Professor |
| 1997 - 1999 |
Research Assistant Professor |
| 1996 - 1997 |
Post-Graduate Research Associate |
|
CSEE Dept. and Institute for Global Electronic
Commerce |
|
University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
|
|
Conducted research in Artificial Intelligence,
Software Agents, Information Retrieval, Enterprise Software and
Supply Chain Management |
|
|
Member of two consortia funded with NIST ATP funds.
The Extended Enterprise Coalition for Integrated Collaborative
Manufacturing (EECOMS) focused on innovation in Supply Chain Management
(SCM). Applied rule-based technologies, agent negotiation and
distributed trust to enable real-time SCM. The Consortium for
Integrated Intelligent Manufacturing Planning and Execution (CIIMPLEX)
focused on innovation for integration solutions related to enterprise
resource management. Applied agent technology in realistic resource
planning scenarios. |
|
Major contributor in the standardization efforts
of the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA). Developed
and taught new graduate courses on Electronic Commerce Technologies
and Intelligent Software Agents and was the organizer of the CSEE
Dept. Colloquium Series. Advised and supervised nine graduate
(MSc and Phd theses). |
|
| 1995 |
Intern |
|
IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorn, NY
|
|
|
Designed the algorithm for the implementation of
a backward chaining engine for RAISE (Reusable Agent Intelligence
Software Environment). Investigated the incorporation of agent
communication capabilities into RAISE. Investigated the implementation
of a facilitator/mediator based on RAISE. Participated in the
IBM effort within OMG in the area of Common Facilities (wrote
a response to an RFP). |
|
Education |
|
| 1990 - 1996 |
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of
Maryland, Graduate School, Baltimore. |
|
Areas of interest: Agents, Artificial Intelligence,
Distributed Artificial Intelligence. |
|
Thesis title: Semantics for an Agent Communication
Language. |
|
Advisor: Dr. Timothy W. Finin. |
| 1989 - 1990 |
M.Sc. in Computer & Communications Engineering,
University of Athens, Greece. |
|
Attended first of 2 years. |
| 1984 - 1989 |
Diploma in Physics, University of Athens,
Greece. |
|
Thesis title: Computer Simulation of the
Kythnos Aeolic Park. |
|
Miscellaneous |
|
|
Organizer or chair for 8 international conferences
and workshops. Program committee member for more than 50 international
conferences and workshops. Gave more than 10 tutorials on agent
and semantic web technologies at international conferences. Delivered
more than 15 invited talks at universities and research labs.
Reviewed book and research proposals for national organizations,
including for the NSF. Co-authored two business plans. Authored
more than 40 publications for conferences, books, journals and
workshops (citations at http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=y+labrou
and at http://print.google.com/print?q=y+labrou).
|
|
