Adam Zagorecki

Adam Zagorecki has taken an active role in IISIS Project since 1999. He serves as the lead programmer for the early tsunami detection project and also for the Situation Assessment Module (SAM) in the JIISIS prototype. SAM is a key component of the JIISIS prototype and is used in several IISIS research projects. Adam is an experienced modeler with practical experience in diverse domains ranging from hardware diagnosis, artillery shell fragmentation, to weather forecasts and social systems. His research interests include modeling uncertainty, graphical models, machine learning and agent-based simulation with particular focus on real-life applications. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, where he is a member of Decision Systems Laboratory. He holds M.Sc. degree in Computer Science. During his research officer position at Defence Academy of the United Kingdom he worked on applying decision-theoretic approaches to estimating value of weather and environmental information for military decision-makers. His industrial experience includes modeling production processes at Intel Research and hardware diagnosis at HRL Laboratories. He has been involved in research projects involving military systems diagnosis and prognostics for Rockwell and BAE Systems.