Dr. Brown received his B.S. degree from the United States Military Academy, West Point, the M.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley and the Ph.D. degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Brown is currently Associate Professor of Systems Engineering and Associate Director of the Institute for Parallel Computation, University of Virginia. Prior to joining the University of Virginia, Dr. Brown directed multi-sensor surveillance operations for the U.S. Army in Germany and later worked at Vector Research, Inc. on projects in medical information processing and multi-sensor systems. He has consulted for numerous private and governmental organizations. He is currently an Associate Editor the International Abstracts in Operations Research, and on the administrative committee of the IEEE Neural Networks Council. He is a Vice President and former Secretary of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. He is coeditor of the books, Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence: The Integration of Problem Solving Strategies and Intelligent Scheduling Systems. He is also past-Chairman of the Operations Research Society of America Technical Section on Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Brown has over 50 technical publications and has been a principal investigator or co-principal investigator for over 50 research contracts with federal, state, and private organizations. His research focuses on inductive modeling, statistical pattern recognition, spatial data analysis, and their applications to operations engineering. He has specifically applied this research to a variety of problems that include: data integration from multi-sensor systems; transportation routing and scheduling; optimal site placement, regional boundary definition, quality control engineering; facility design; target recognition; software engineering; medical decision making; environmental hazard response systems; and crime prevention and analysis systems.