Ke-Thia Yao is a Research Lead in the Artificial Intelligence Division of the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California. He received his B.S. with honors in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Rutgers University. He did postgraduate work at Claremont Graduate School in conjunction with then McDonnell Douglas. Dr. Ke-Thia Yao has over 25 years of experience in research and development in a wide-range of computer science related areas, including multidisciplinary engineering design, information management, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.