Curriculum Vitae
Robert L. Dawes, Ph.D.
President, QED Corporation
Principal Consultant
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (Please follow the links for expanded details.)
Dr. Dawes received the Ph.D. in mathematics in 1977 from The University of Texas in Austin. He wrote his dissertation under Prof. Ralph Showalter on Hilbert space methods for evolution equations. In addition to differential equations, he is qualified in abstract algebra, algebraic topology, general topology, and real, complex and abstract analysis.
He worked at Texas Instruments from 1975 to 1981, and at E-Systems, Garland Division from 1981 to 1985. He then founded Martingale Research Corporation where, as President from 1985 to 1995 he sold and performed over $3.5 million in government-sponsored research, mostly in the field of nonlinear stochastic filtering and control using the Schroedinger equation in a neural network paradigm called Quantum Neurodynamics. In 1995 he began consulting in neural networks and other numerically intensive algorithms, doing business as QED Corporation.
Dr. Dawes' experience is concentrated in applications of his vast repertoire of mathematical tools and methods to defense and industry problems in signal processing, nonlinear controls, econometric forecasting, detection and tracking (not necessarily in that order) of nonlinear systems, reverse engineering of embedded firmware, neurocomputing models, optical flow computation, acoustic monitoring for crack growth in aircraft structures, speech recognition, complex system simulation, computational graph theory, and more.
His consulting clients have included Sabre, Inc., American Airlines, Micro Technology Services, Inc., DGI Technologies, Interactive Educational Technology, and Inter Continental Business Systems.
Once a Fortran guru, Dr. Dawes now writes most applications in C and C++. He has familiarity and experience with object oriented programming, but does not himself write OO code. He uses Microsoft Visual C++ for PC programming and Solaris CDE for C/C++ programming on Sun systems. He is a heavy user of MS Office components, MS Project, Math Cad, and Extend.
He is a member and past Dallas chapter officer of the IEEE Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Society (ASSP), and he is a former charter member and Math SIG chairman of the International Neural Network Society. In 1986 he and Dan Levine co-founded the Metroplex Institute for Neural Dynamics, the oldest professional society in the U.S. today dedicated to the study of neural networks, and served as its president for four years.
His research has been sponsored by the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force, DARPA, NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health.
PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS:
Dr. Dawes has an extensive bibliography of research reports, conference presentations, published articles and two chapters in books on neural networks.
His patent for a nonlinear kernel programmable systolic array was assigned to E-Systems and is cited extensively.
He served on the City Council of Parker, Texas, for 12 years.