David L. Hall, PhD, is the dean for the Pennsylvania State University College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST). He also serves as a professor of IST and director of the Center for Network Centric Cognition and Information Fusion (NC2IF). Prior to joining IST, he was an associate director of the Penn State Applied Research Laboratory. In this role, he directed an interdisciplinary team of 175 scientists and engineers in conducting research in information science, navigation research, systems automation, and communications science. Dr. Hall has industrial experience, including serving as director of independent research & development (IR&D) and leading a software signal processing group at Raytheon Corporation (HRB Division), manager of the navigation analysis section at the Computer Sciences Corporation, and staff scientist at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Dr. Hall is the author of over 200 technical papers and several books, including Mathematical Techniques in Multisensor Data Fusion (2004) and Human-Centered Information Fusion (2010). He is an IEEE fellow and has received the Department of Defense Joe Mignona Award for his contributions to multisensor data fusion. Dr. Hall has lectured internationally on the topics of multisensor data fusion, artificial intelligence, and research management and technology forecasting.
Chee-Yee Chong, PhD, is a chief scientist at BAE Systems Technology Solutions. He received his SB, SM, and PhD in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He taught at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, before joining Advanced Decision Systems (ADS), a small, advanced research and development company in California. He continued to lead tracking and fusion research at Booz Allen Hamilton after it acquired ADS, and later at ALPHATECH, which was acquired by BAE Systems. Dr. Chong’s research interests include centralized and distributed estimation, target tracking, information fusion, optimization and resource management, and application to real-world problems. He has been involved in distributed fusion research for over 25 years, starting with the Distributed Sensor Networks (DSN) program for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the 1980s. He is also the cofounder of the International Society of Information Fusion (ISIF), its president since 2004, and general cochair of the 12th International Conference on Information Fusion since 2009. He has served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and the International Journal of Information Fusion. Currently he serves as an area editor for the Journal of Advances in Information Fusion. Dr. Chong received the Joseph Mignogna Data Fusion Award from the U.S. Department of Defense Joint Directors of Laboratories Data Fusion Group in 2005.
James Llinas, PhD, is a professor emeritus at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is also the director emeritus for the Center for Multisource Information Fusion (CMIF), a research center that he started some 20 years ago located at the University at Buffalo. An expert on data fusion, he coauthored the first integrated book on the subject, Multisensor Data Fusion, published by Artech House (1990), and has lectured internationally on the subject for over 20 years. For more than a decade, he has been a technical advisor to the Defense Department’s Joint Directors of Laboratories Data Fusion Panel. He was the founding president of the International Society of Information Fusion. His expertise in applying data fusion technology to different problem areas ranges from complex defense and intelligence-system applications to nondefense diagnosis. His current projects involve automated reasoning, distributed data fusion, hard and soft data fusion, information fusion architectures, and the scientific foundation of data correlation. He received a doctorate degree in applied statistics and industrial engineering.
Martin E. Liggins II is an engineer with The MITRE Corporation. He has more than 20 years of research and development experience in industry and with the Department of Defense. He has performed fusion research in a number of areas, including sensor and data fusion, multisensor and multitarget tracking, radar, high-performance computing, and program management. He is the author of more than 30 technical and research papers and is coeditor of the Handbook of Multisensor Data Fusion, Second Edition. Liggins has served as the chairman of the National Symposium of Sensor and Data Fusion (1995, 2002, and 2003) and has been an active senior committee member since 1990. He has also been active in the SPIE Aerosense Conference on Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, and Target Recognition since 1992. He was awarded the Veridian Medal Paper Award in fusion research (2002) and the first Rome Air Development Center Major General John J. Toomay Award for advances in multispectral fusion technology (1989).