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1 JONATHAN MUGAN Curriculum Vitae 21CT, Inc W. Courtyard Drive Austin, Texas USA RESEARCH INTERESTS My research focuses on the goal of making the squishy reality of the everyday world available to computation. My interests span the fields of machine learning, data science, and artificial intelligence. EDUCATION Ph.D. in Computer Science August 2010 The University of Texas at Austin Thesis title: Autonomous Qualitative Learning of Distinctions and Actions in a Developing Agent Committee: Benjamin Kuipers (advisor), Peter Stone, Raymond Mooney, Leslie Cohen, Dana Ballard GPA: 3.79/4.00 M.S. in Computer Science May 2004 The University of Texas at Dallas GPA: 4.00/4.00 M.B.A. December 1996 Texas A&M University GPA: 3.51/4.00 B.A. in Psychology May 1995 Texas A&M University GPA: 3.94/4.00 GRANTS AWARDED ONR Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I. Contract No.:N P-1022 February 2013 August 2013, $150,000 USAF Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I. Contract No.: FA M-1406 April 2012 January 2013, $100,000 PUBLICATIONS Journal Jonathan Mugan and Benjamin Kuipers. Autonomous Learning of High-Level States and Actions in Continuous Environments. IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development (IEEE TAMD), 2012.

2 Jonathan Mugan Curriculum Vitae 2 of 5 Conferences Jonathan Mugan, Eric McDermid, Abbey McGrew, and Laura Hitt. Identifying Groups of Interest through Temporal Analysis and Event Response Monitoring. IEEE Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI-13), Jonathan Mugan. A Developmental Approach to Learning Causal Models for Cyber Security. SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, Machine Intelligence and Bio-inspired Computation: Theory and Applications VII (SPIE+DSS-13), Justin Cranshaw, Jonathan Mugan and Norman Sadeh. User-Controllable Learning of Location Privacy Policies with Gaussian Mixture Models. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-11), Jonathan Mugan and Benjamin Kuipers. A Comparison of Strategies for Developmental Action Acquisition. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob-09), Jonathan Mugan and Benjamin Kuipers. Autonomously Learning an Action Hierarchy Using a Learned Qualitative State Representation. Proceedings of the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), Jonathan Mugan and Benjamin Kuipers. Towards the Application of Reinforcement Learning to Undirected Developmental Learning. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob-08), Jonathan Mugan and Benjamin Kuipers. Learning to Predict the Effects of Actions: Synergy Between Rules and Landmarks. Proceedings of the 6th (IEEE) International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-07), Jonathan Mugan and Benjamin Kuipers. Learning Distinctions and Rules in a Continuous World Through Active Exploration. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob- 07), Symposia and Workshops Jonathan Mugan. Top-Down Abstraction Learning Using Prediction as a Supervisory Signal. AAAI Workshop on Learning Rich Representations from Low-Level Sensors (RepLearn-13), Jonathan Mugan and Matt McClain. The Application of Developmental Learning to Cyber Security. Biologically Inspired Cyber Defense Workshop (BICD-12), Jianwei Niu, Da Huo, Xiao Zeng, Jonathan Mugan. Interactive and real-time generation of home video summaries on mobile devices. International ACM Workshop on Interactive Multimedia on Mobile and Portable Devices, Rebecca Balebako, Pedro G. Leon, Hazim Almuhimedi, Patrick Gage Kelley, Jonathan Mugan, Alessandro Acquisti, Lorrie Faith Cranor and Norman Sadeh. Nudging Users Towards Privacy on Mobile Devices. Workshop on Persuasion, Influence, Nudge and Coercion Through Mobile Devices (PINC at CHI-11), Jonathan Mugan and Benjamin Kuipers. Skill Reuse in Lifelong Developmental Learning. IROS 2009 Workshop: Autonomous Mental Development for Intelligent Robots and Systems, Jonathan Mugan and Benjamin Kuipers. Continuous-Domain Reinforcement Learning Using a Learned Qualitative State Representation. 22nd International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, 2008.

3 Jonathan Mugan Curriculum Vitae 3 of 5 Book Chapters Jonathan Mugan and Benjamin Kuipers. Autonomous Representation Learning in a Developing Agent. Computational and Robotic Models of the Hierarchical Organization of Behavior. Springer Verlag, Jonathan Mugan and Klaus Truemper. Discretization of Rational Data. Mathematical Methods for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. IGI Publishing Group, Stephen Bartnikowski, Matthias Granberry, Jonathan Mugan, and Klaus Truemper. Transformation of Rational and Set Data to Logic Data. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Approaches Based on Rule Induction Techniques. Springer, Book Jonathan Mugan The Curiosity Cycle: Preparing Your Child for the Ongoing Technological Explosion PhD thesis Jonathan Mugan. Autonomous Qualitative Learning of Distinctions and Actions in a Developing Agent, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, August, Synopsis: A method is presented that allows an agent through a developmental progression to autonomously learn a state representation and a hierarchical set of actions in a continuous environment. INVITED TALK Combining Human Intelligence and Machine Learning. Graduate Academic Forum. Beihang University, China. October, WORK EXPERIENCE Lead Scientist, 21CT, Inc. August present Apply methods in machine learning to problems in cyber security and social media analysis. Adjunct Professor, The University of Texas at Austin January present Apply methods in machine learning to problems in cyber security and social media analysis. Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University September August 2011 With Norman Sadeh. Mentored a student and performed research towards enabling machine learning to help users of mobile devices to specify privacy policies in a location-sharing mobile network. Project leader for the location-sharing social network application called Locaccino. Research Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin July August 2010 With Ben Kuipers. Performed thesis research on autonomous learning in continuous environments. Research Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin January July 2008 With Maytal Saar-Tsechansky. Performed experiments comparing different methods for active learning.

4 Jonathan Mugan Curriculum Vitae 4 of 5 Research Assistant, The University of Texas at Dallas January July 2004 With Klaus Truemper. Discretized continuous data on a project to detect faces in images. Consultant, independent August December 2001 Independent Contractor/Consultant. Worked on multiple large projects at multinational corporations to convert legacy data processing systems to SAP (an enterprise resource planning program). Consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers January August 1998 SAP Consultant. Designed and coded programs on a large SAP implementation. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Adjunct Professor: Artificial Intelligence, honors Spring 2013 Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Programming in Java Summer 2006 Artificial Intelligence Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2007 AWARDS Best Educational Video AAAI 2010 Video Competition (AIVC 2010) Watch at HONORS MCD Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin, 2005 Lechner Fellowship, Texas A&M University, 1996 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Program Committee ALIHT The Second Annual Workshop on Agents Learning Interactively from Human Teachers AISB Symposium on: Computational Models of Cognitive Development Language Editor Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics [ ] Journal Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development Annals of Information Systems Conference Reviewer IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

5 Jonathan Mugan Curriculum Vitae 5 of 5 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob) COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Youth Soccer Coach Fall 2007 to present Youth Basketball Coach Winter 2009 CITIZENSHIP United States LANGUAGES English, Spanish