Panelist
Bonnie Holub
Founder and CEO of Adventium Labs
Bonnie K. Holub, Ph.D. is a founder and CEO of Adventium Labs, a non-profit research and development lab, focusing on the development of advanced software applications for complex systems, with a particular emphasis on automated reasoning, human-system interaction, and supporting architectures.
In seven years of operation, this group has booked over $14 million in research funding from a variety of government labs and industrial research organizations. Their growing client list in includes the US Department of Energy, NASA, the National Institutes of Health, DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Science Foundation. As a member of the technical team at Adventium Labs, Dr. Holub continues to conduct research. She has participated in studies analyzing the commercialization of key technologies, and has participated in the publication of various research results including an assessment for the US Department of Energy assessing advanced sensor and automation technologies, and a research grant for NASA evaluating planning and scheduling applications in light of emerging technologies and mission trends.
Dr. Holub earned her doctorate degree in Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence from the University of Minnesota. She was the Director of Project Development for Object Partners, Inc., a Java consulting company in Minneapolis, MN. She was a principal at Knowledge Partners of Minnesota, and is the founder and director of the Artificial Intelligence/High Performance and Parallel Computing Lab in the Graduate Programs in Software (GPS) at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. During her tenure GPS grew to become the largest graduate program in software in the world, and Dr. Holub was on the faculty there since shortly after its inception in 1985 until 2004. Prior to that, Dr. Holub was a Senior Research Scientist at Honeywell Labs where she worked from 1981-1995. She has over 30 publications in national and international journals and conference proceedings in the areas of automated prognostics and diagnostics, information fusion, and parallel computing. In 1993 the Minnesota Federation of Engineering Societies selected her as the "Minnesota Young Engineer of the Year." She also has served over nine years on several community non-profit boards, and is an active volunteer in community events.
During her time at the Honeywell Research Center Labs, Dr. Holub won a prestigious Honeywell Initiative grant funding for Parallel Processing for Spatial/Temporal Reasoning. She led research efforts to develop design guidelines and to filter in-flight data streams for embedded maintenance and diagnostic systems for the Air Force, Navy, and commercial clients. Dr. Holub designed and managed software development for the Spatial/Temporal Association and Tracking Undersea Surveillance System (STATUSS) to perform information fusion for the IUSS/SDS system for the Navy (SPAWARS). She led the hardware team building the GBU-15 (Glide Bomb Unit) trainer for the Air Force. This program used advanced state-of-the-art hardware to build an image processing pipeline to perform image work and insertion in real-time. In addition, she designed and led the development of the Combat Information Fusion Testbed using spatial/temporal reasoning along with geographic and doctrinal data to do information fusion for an Army G2 Intelligence Section. Her PhD thesis combined multiple sensor data for situation awareness applications for robotic applications, and her master’s thesis was a knowledge-based system for enemy Indications and Warnings of NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical contamination).
Dr. Holub serves on the boards of directors for Dodge Nature Center (president 2004-2005), the St. Paul Area Chamber of Commerce (the largest regional chamber in the upper Midwest), and INSciTE (a nonprofit providing engineering education for grade and high school students).
Dr. Holub serves on the Dean's Advisory Panel for the Institute of Technology at the University of Minnesota and the Advisory Panel for the Graduate Programs in Software at the Univesrity of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN.
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Keynote
Harry Debes
Panelists
Stephen B. Young
Sara Criger
Bonnie Holub
Douglas A. Johnson
Mark Stutrud
Peter Vaill |
