Dr. Czichon is a co-founder of Advanced Coordination Technologies, LLC. There, he submitted Phase I and II proposals for the SBIR research topic “Dynamic Composable Simulations for Robotic Behaviors”. Both resulted in contract awards from the U.S. Army’s RDECOM in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Czichon served as principal investigator during Phase II. This project developed an environment for modeling, performing, and evaluating autonomous entity behaviors within tactical tasks. Tools were developed for graphically composing individual and team behaviors and controlling robotic vehicles during simulated military operations. The OneSAF (Semi-Automated Forces) constructive simulator served as the testbed.At Raytheon, Dr. Czichon used InfoSleuth’s information fusion capabilities to develop a complex event detection capability for electronic intelligence gathering. InfoSleuth is a collaborative agent system developed by an MCC (Microelectronics and Computer Technology Consortium) project. It employs distributed, cooperative agents providing information retrieval services using ontology-based mediation. Also, Dr. Czichon served as a technical lead on Raytheon’s Small Unit Operations (SUO) Situational Awareness System (SAS) project funded by DARPA’s Technology Transfer Office. On SUO SAS, he developed sentinel agents that recognized “intrusion” and “ambush” event patterns ocurring in dismounted infantry simulations run on ModSAF 5.0 (Modular Semi-Automated Forces) simulation stations and using McKenna MOUT site terrain.At Texas Instruments (TI), Dr. Czichon was a member of the Defense Systems & Electronic Group’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. There, he created knowledge-based applications and computer-based training systems. Also, Dr. Czichon proposed, designed and led implementation of EXTRA (EXpert TRaining Advisor), an intelligent training advisor built for the CIA.Presently, Dr, Czichon is working as marketing manager at Accurate Connections, Inc.Specialties: Collaborative Agent Systems, Artificial Intelligence Research, Robotics Research, Instructional Design, Gamma Ray Spectroscopy