Academic and Industrial Experience

Frank taught artificial intelligence in the Spring '96 semester at UVa. Follow the link to the CS 416 Resource Page.

Frank recently completed his dissertation, and was officially awarded the Ph.D. in January 1996. His dissertation is on-line:

Brill, F.Z., 1996. ``Representation of Local Space in Perception/Action Systems: Behaving Appropriately in Difficult Situations,'' Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Virginia.

Current Research:

Frank's current research is in spatial representations for autonomous robots. His dissertation proposal was entitled Perception and Action in a Dynamic Three-Dimensional World. Early results of this research were published in the Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Visual Behaviors:

F.Z. Brill III, ``Perception and Action in a Dynamic Three-Dimensional World,'' Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Visual Behaviors, June 19, 1994, pp.60-67.

More recent results will be published at the IEEE International Symposium on Computer Vision '95.
Postscript and HTML versions of this paper are available.

Brill, F.Z., W.N. Martin, and T.J. Olson. ``Markers Elucidated and Applied in Local 3-Space,'' Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE International Symposium on Computer Vision, November 19-21, 1995.

Frank participated in the AAAI-93 Robot Building Lab and Competition. He wrote a report describing the experience that you can read. David Greene of CMU robotics thought it was interesting enough to include it in materials given to incoming robotics students.

Industry Experience:

Between getting a master's degree and going on for his Ph.D., Frank spent two years working at Bellcore designing and developing software for the surveillance and diagnosis of telephone switching networks. While at Bellcore, Frank gained valuable experience in graphical user interfaces, real time network programming, embedded expert system development, Unix system administration, and corporate culture.

Master's Research:

Frank earned a Master of Science degree from the University of Virginia Computer Science Department in 1990. His thesis was entitled Genetic Algorithms for Feature Selection. A condensed version of this work appeared in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks.

F.Z. Brill, D.E. Brown, and W.N. Martin, "Fast Genetic Selection of Features for Neural Network Classifiers," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 3(2), March 1992, pp.324-328.

Undergraduate Education:

Frank was an undergraduate in Alaska at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks Campus, where he majored in Mathematics and Computer Science, with a minor in Secondary Education. He completed his undergraduate education in 1988. While in Fairbanks, Frank worked at the Geophysical Institute writing FORTRAN programs to analyze data collected in Antarctica. In 1993, UA Fairbanks opened a Supercomputing Center. Check it out.

Maintained by Frank Brill (brill@virginia.edu)

Last modified: Thu Jun 6 07:31:00 1996