Research Interest
Intelligent Systems and Applications
My research focuses on intelligent systems (encompassing machine learning, artificial intelligence, fuzzy techniques) and their applications to various domains, with an emphasis on decision making, be it decision under uncertainty, decision under risk, or multicriteria decision making as well as game theory.
Some of these techniques are natural extensions of statistical approaches for data analysis, whereas other approaches complement the more traditional Bayesian approaches for data analysis.
More specifically, I am interested in modeling and understanding complex phenomena in biology, environmental sciences, and finance. Although the fields are rather different, they remain data-driven and intelligent systems techniques offer an effective unifying framework to address the problems of those application domains.
Grants & Awards
Boeing contract - Reliability analysis for components of the space station - $70,000 for Spring 2009. Subject to signature.
University-bound contract.
NSF - CPath/CDP An integrated, multidisciplinary and cross-fertilizing model for computing education This collaborative work across the Colleges of Science, Engineering and Business Administration, spans over two years and is funded by NSF for an amount of $148,543. F. Modave, P.I, E. Freudenthal (UTEP - Computer Science), V. Lougheed (UTEP - Biological Sciences), O. Varela (UTEP - Economics and Finance) as co-P.I. This is a preparation award for a larger $2M award.
Decision making and constraint programming for information operations vulnerability and survivability assessment (project description that contributed to the University obtained an umbrella contract with Army Research Laboratories)
Army Research Laboratories, umbrella contract, with a $2M ceiling April 2008
Cross-cultural perceptions of human and virtual human group conversational behavior - U.S. Army, $100,000
November 2007 (12 months)
P.I. David Traum (ICT-USC), co-P.I. David Novick and Francois Modave.
Performance via Autonomicity, Analysis, Virtualization, and Micro-partitioning, and Research in Life Sciences and Bioinformatics, Performance Analysis and Parallelization of the PKNot code for RNA secondary structure predictions
IBM — SUR Award, over $600,000 (supplemented by STAR award by Dr. Teller).
May 2005
Patrica Teller, P.I., and Steve Aley, Lisa Bain, William Baldwin, Ming-Ying
Leung, François Modave, Patricia Nava, Michela Taufer, Diana Villa, co-P.Is.
New physical-statistical methods and models for clutter
Army Research Laboratories, $27,000
August 2003 (12 months)
P.I. François Modave, co-P.I. Vladik Kreinovich.