Richard Hull Email & Phone Number

Reno, Nv, Us

Davis, California, United States

Creating and presenting a graduate course on Computing for Food Security. This course stems from my interest in activities of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and other groups aimed at ending food insecurity worldwide. Computing technologies provide a key foundation for this effort, including data collection, integration, analysis and visualization; data and models for forecasting crop yields in the near- and long-term; understanding the interplay of agriculture, greenhouse gases, and climate change; and optimization techniques to simultaneously maximize crop yields, carbon sequestration, and bio-diversity.

Northeast Pennsylvania

The Spring Hills Foundation provides educational opportunities to people of all ages, in the areas of sustainable agriculture, living in harmony with nature, and the arts. A key focus is to inform the educational activities through an immersion in nature - its beauty and its rhythms - while visiting the 350+ acre Spring Hills Farm situated in the rolling hills of Northeastern Pennsylvania.

New York City Metropolitan Area

grok focused on transforming service operations into a competitive advantage for enterprises, by bringing realtime, proactive data and recommendations to front-line workers, managers, and executives.As CTO, Rick led the development and scaling of grok technology, aligned with market and customer imperatives and powered by digital and innovative approaches

Taught graduate-level courses on Fundamental Algorithms and Blockchain and its Applications.

Yorktown Heights, Ny

At IBM Research I led the team that developed Guard-Stage-Milestone (GSM), a highly flexible approach to business process management especially well-suited for processes performed by knowledge workers, medical professionals, and case workers. GSM became the foundation for the IBM Case Manager product and the OMG standard "Case Management Model & Notation (CMMN)". We applied this technology to support collaborative knowledge-intensive processes and farm-to-fork supply chains, among other areas.In subsequent work I led teams focused on the application of AI to support business processes and their transformation. We developed innovative ways to discover processes from text-based process descriptions and from process logs. We applied Machine Learning to significantly improve in-line automated decisioning. We demonstrated and refined these capabilities through work with the telecommunications and other industries.Additional projects focused on Blockchain for business interoperation, leveraging social media for demand forecasting, and automatic generation of billing systems.During this period I filed 7 patents (3 granted, 4 still pending), published over 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles, received research funding from the NSF, and presented several plenary keynote talks at top Computer Science conferences,

Research and product creation in Computer Science and telecommunications, with emphasis on database management, policy management, workflow, personalization, and (semantic) web services, and transfer of technology into business units. Elevated to Bell Labs Fellow in 2006. This was based in part on pioneering technologies that were incorporated into two Lucent products, in the areas of federated data management and policy management.My work on enabling personalization of location services, including realtime privacy management, was featured in a NY Times article in February, 2004, and television news coverage.During this period I filed 11 patents (10 granted, 1 still pending), published over 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles, received research funding from the NSF, and presented several plenary key-note talks at top Computer Science conferences.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Research and teaching in Computer Science. During the period from 1979 to 1996, I published over 50 peer-reviewed scientific articles, and co-authored the graduate textbook "Foundations of Databases". Research areas included database theory, data integration, database programming languages, logic programming. I received research funding from the NSF, DARPA, AT&T and US West. Teaching included undergraduate and graduate courses on data management, database theory, discrete math, compilers, complexity theory, formal languages.