Safety & Simulation Research

Eugene Santos Jr., received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University. He also holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics and computer science. Prior to joining the Dartmouth faculty, he was a faculty member in the college of engineering at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, where he also served as the associate and interim director of the university's Taylor L. Booth Engineering Center for Advanced Technologies, an interdisciplinary center supporting computer and communications research and education, and was the director of the Intelligent Distributed Information Systems Laboratory. Earlier, he held faculty positions at the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson AFB.

Santos is a leading expert in modern statistical and probabilistic methods with applications to intelligent systems, uncertain reasoning, and decision science. He is a leader in the growing community of artificial intelligence researchers who are advancing techniques for constructing models and software systems that can effectively and efficiently reason in the presence of noise and uncertainty. Most recently, he has pioneered new research on user and adversarial behavioral modeling. Outside of academia, he is a leader, adviser, and active participant in defense-related working groups on decision science and information technology.
The recipient of numerous academic honors and awards, Santos most recently received the Outstanding Contribution Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. He also received a best paper award at the 13th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS) Conference, was twice nominated for best paper award (top 6 of 400) at the 18th and 19th Interservice/Industry Training Systems and Education Conference, respectively, and received an award for outstanding research from Sigma Xi.

He is or has been the principal investigator on numerous federal grants spanning a broad range of research programs, including many supported by the Department of Defense, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation, as well as various U.S. intelligence agencies. His current programs involve examinations of fused intent systems, emergent adversarial modeling, the impacts of culture and society on behavior and decision-making, intelligent information retrieval, and computational insight.

He has chaired or served on numerous major conferences and professional society meetings and his scholarly articles have appeared in books and journals around the world. He is the Program Chair for the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics to be held in Montreal, Canada. Santos is also currently an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part B, and the International Journal of Image and Graphics. He has also served as guest editor for PRESENCE.

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