Personal

Biography

I grew up in Columbia, Maryland, graduating from Wilde Lake High School in 1995. I earned undergraduate degrees in computer science and cognitive science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999, and completed my master's degree in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. I currently work as a software engineer at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company in Sunnyvale, CA and spend my weekends working on my doctoral dissertation (also in computer science). I have sung the National Anthem before a Baltimore Orioles game and appeared on Jeopardy!. We have one puppy, a Havanese named Lucy.

Photos

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Blog

My blog is updated intermittently, and mostly drivel.

Career

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Sunnyvale CA

Software Engineer, Modeling, Simulation & Information Sciences, LMSSC Advanced Technology Center

Program manager, Coordinated Actors for Deliberative Relay and Exploration (CADRE) (November 2007-present)

Software design lead, Mobility-Aware Resource Coordination for Optimization of Networking Infrastructure (MARCONI) (July 2006-present)

BigTribe Corporation, San Francisco CA

Research intern

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond WA

Software development engineer (intern), Machine Learning and Applied Statistics, Microsoft Research

Software development engineer (intern), Natural Language Group

Lockheed Martin Management & Data Systems, Valley Forge PA

Mission application engineer (intern), Natural Language Exploitation Technologies

Education

University of California, Berkeley

MS, Computer Science (February 2004)

Advisor: Stuart Russell

Thesis: Additive Value Function Decompositions for Reinforcement Learning Agents

Ph.D., Computer Science (underway; advanced to candidacy August 2006)

Advisor: Stuart Russell

Dissertation: Additive Value Function Decompositions for Reinforcement Learning Agents in Continuous Domains

Teaching experience

CS 188 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Spring 2002)

Carnegie Mellon University

BS, Computer Science

College and University Honors

BS, Cognitive Science

University Honors

Teaching experience

85-310 Research Methods in Cognitive Psychology (Spring 1999)

85-102 Introduction to Psychology (Spring 1998)

Wilde Lake High School

Research

Additive Value Function Decompositions for Reinforcement Learning Agents

Next-generation multihop wireless networks

Contact

Home

Post:	22330 Homestead Road #215 Cupertino CA 95014-0135
Telephone:	510/915-0662 (mobile)
Email:	zimdars@zimdars.net

Work

Post:	Modeling, Simulation & Information Sciences Organization ABCS Building 153, Column 2J4 1111 Lockheed Martin Way Sunnyvale CA 94089
Telephone:	408/742-2111 (desk) 510/915-0662 (mobile)
Facsimile:	408/742-2920