Mitchell Colby Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Woburn, Massachusetts, United States

Woburn, Ma

Woburn, Ma

1. Write proposals: I have secured ~$3M in funding to date2. PI/PM of various programs, including Teammate Aware Autonomy (TAA), Sequential Hypergames: Modeling, Specification, and Learning Based Synthesis of Deceptive Policies (SHADOW), and Adapting Cross Domain Kill Webs (ACK)3. Collaborative Operations in Denied Environments (CODE): Developed flight-tested genetic algorithms (which run onboard UAVs during flight) to optimize UAV distributions for (1) collaborative TDOA localization of emitting targets, and (2) collaborative jamming of specified targets.4. Adversarial Modeling for DBM Planning (AMDP): Developed POMDP-style tasking engine to optimize multi-aircraft mission plans against deceptive adversaries.

Corvallis, Oregon

1. Running day-to-day operations of Autonomous Agents and Distributed Intelligence (AADI) Lab.2. I mentor graduate students in the AADI lab.3. Principal researcher on two Department of Energy grants: (i) developing algorithms to coordinate sensors (up to 10,000) in distributed sensor networks, and (ii) developing algorithms to model and control advanced hybrid energy systems4. Developing theoretical guarantees for multiagent learning algorithms

1. Columbia Power Technologies: Created a simulator to evaluate wave energy converter designs, and applied an evolutionary algorithm to optimize ballast design.2. Department of Energy: Used reinforcement learning and evolutionary algorithms to optimize the measurement accuracy of distributed sensor networks (up to 10,000 coordinating devices).3. Theoretical Work: applied evolutionary game theory to show the theoretical advantages of the dif- ference evaluation function (used in both reinforcement learning and cooperative coevolutionary algorithms).4. Software: Created a software library capable of modeling and simulating generic single- and multi-agent systems. Functionality includes abstract domain implementation and simple modifi- cation of experiment parameters such as reward/fitness assignment type.

Corvallis, Oregon

1. Responsible for creating and grading homework sets, tests, and term projects2. Responsible for creating and presenting class lectures, as well as holding office hours to assist students3. Topics covered include probability theory, localization, mapping, SLAM, and path-planning

Sunnyvale, Ca

Research learning-based control for multiagent payload directed flight, as well as statistical guarantees regarding the performance of the system.

Corvallis, Oregon

Designed and implemented design changes for Sheldon Manufacturing vacuum oven. Cycle time (time to heat and then cool oven chamber) was reduced by 70% using advanced cooling system, and custom gasket seal was replaced with standard o-ring to reduce replacement costs while maintaining 0.00025 atm vacuum pressure.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering