Wei-Min Shen

Expert on robotics and artificial intelligence
  • Associate Professor of Computer Science Practice, School of Engineering
  • Research Associate Professor in Computer Science, School of Engineering
  • Senior Research Scientist and Project Leader, Intelligent Systems Division, Information Sciences Institute
Office: (310) 448-8710

Expertise

  • machine learning and computational learning
  • robotics and intelligent systems
  • autonomous learning agents and robots
  • self-reconfigurable robots -- mobile agents that can autonomously learn from their environment based on their own actions, perceptions and missions
  • automatic knowledge discovery from databases
  • multi-agent robotics systems -- adaptive and self-organizing agent teams
  • building integrated robots for soccer competition
  • digital hormones supporting control and communication among self-reconfigurable autonomous systems
  • distributed, scalable, robust and adaptive software systems
  • knowledge and data engineering
  • decision support systems
  • data mining techniques
  • artificial intelligence

Languages

  • Mandarin

Additional Information

  • Project Leader, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp.
  • Principal Investigator for DARPA, AFOSR and NSF in the areas of self-reconfigurable robots, digital hormones, autonomous learning agents and data mining
  • Author of Autonomous Learning from the Environment (1994) and The Handbook of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (2001)
  • Editorial Board Member, Intelligent Data Analysis