CURRICULUM VITAE

Philip Feldman, MA, MS, PhD

feld1@umbc.edu

@philfeld@fediscience.org

@pgfeldman.bsky.social

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Professional

• Adjunct Research Assistant Professor of Information Systems: University of Maryland Baltimore County (2020 - present)
• AI/ML Futurist: ASRC Federal (2015 - present)
• Technology Architect: Novetta, Inc (2009 - 2015)
• Senior Member of Technical Staff: Proteus Technologies (2005 - 2009)
• Chief Technical Officer: Powergrid Fitnes (2002 - 2009)
• Independent Consultant (2002 - 2009)
• Senior Scientist/ Director of Software Development: Immersion Medical (1996 - 2002)

Education

• PhD Human-Centered Computing: University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2020
• MS Human-Centered Computing: University of Maryland Baltimore County, (Cum Laude) 2014
• MS Interdisciplinary Studies: Johns Hopkins University (Summa Cum Laude), 1995
• BA Interdisciplinary Studies: University of Maryland (Magna Cum Laude) 1983

Speaking

• University of Maryland Baltimore County Informations Systems Event Talk - April 22 2024: Deep Biases (In Nearly Everything)
• NIST AI COI March 2024: Societal-Scale, Low-Speed AI Conflict
• MORS 2023 Emerging Techniques Forum: Societal-Scale, Low-Speed AI Conflict
• GSAW 2023 panel: Intelligent Systems / Machine Learning for Space Ground Systems
• MORS 2023 Symposium: War Elephants: Rethinking Combat AI and Human Oversight
• GSAW 2022 panel: Intelligent Systems / Machine Learning for Space Ground Systems
• MORS 2022 Emerging Techniques Forum: Ethics, Rules of Engagement, and AI: Neural Narrative Mapping Using Large Transformer Language Models
• GSAW 2021 panel: Intelligent Systems / Machine Learning for Space Ground Systems
• GSAW 2020 panel: Intelligent Systems / Machine Learning for Space Ground Systems, with Jon Neff, Dan Balderston, John Donahue, and Jacob Everist
• Collective Intelligence 2018 panel: Crowdsourcing and Crowd-driven Innovation, with Christopher Tucci, Gianluigi Viscusi, Rosy Mondardini, Thomas Malone, and Joel Chan

Books

• Stampede Theory: Human Nature, Technology, and Runaway Social Realities (Elsevier, 2023)

Media Appearances

• Can Google fix its disastrous new AI search tool? (New Scientist 2024)

Publications

• The Voice: Lessons on Trustworthy Conversational Agents from 'Dune' (CUI '24: Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces )
• War Elephants: Rethinking Combat AI and Human Oversight (ArXiv 2024)
• Killer Apps: Low-Speed, Large-Scale AI Weapons (HAI-GEN Workshop at IUI 2024)
• Trapping LLM Hallucinations Using Tagged Context Prompts (draft) (ArXiv 2023)
• The Keyword Explorer Suite: A Toolkit for Understanding Online Populations (ACM IUI 2023)
• Down the Rabbit Hole: Detecting Online Extremism, Radicalisation, and Politicised Hate Speech (ACM Computing Surveys)
• Ethics, Rules of Engagement, and AI: Neural Narrative Mapping Using Large Transformer Language Models (Dec 2021 Bulletin of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering)
• Who is the Ringleader? Modelling Influence in Discourse using Doc2Vec (poster) (ACSOS 2021)
• Analyzing COVID-19 Tweets with Transformer-based Language Models (SocialSens 2021 prepub)
• Guest Editorial Diversification in Urban Transportation Systems and Beyond: Integrating People and Goods for the Future of Mobility (2021 IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems)
• Training robust anomaly detection using ML-Enhanced simulations Proceedings of the 2020 Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering and Technology Symposium)
• Stampede Theory: Mapping and Treating Dangerous Misinformation at Scale (2020 doctoral dissertation)
• Evolving Neural Network Ensembles for Reliable Time Series Prediction (Ground Systems Architecture Workshop March 2020) (slides)
• The Resilience of "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" (IEEE Technology and Society Magazine June 2019) (article)
• Disrupting the Coming Robot Stampedes: Designing Resilient Information Ecologies (Best "Blue Sky" paper) (iConference 2019) (paper)
• Diversity in Massively Multi-agent Systems: Concepts, Implementations, and Normal Accidents (2018 International Workshop on Massively Multiagent Systems) (paper)
• This One Simple Trick Disrupts Digital Communities (Best Poster) (SASO 2018) (paper)
• Simon's Anthill: Mapping and Navigating Belief Spaces (Collective Intelligence 2018) (paper)
• With Maps and Mobs: Searching for Trustworthiness using Belief Spaces (CHIIR 2018) (paper)
• Modeling the Law of Group Polarization (Collective Intelligence 2017) (poster)
• Modeling Polarizing Network Behaviors with Flocking Simulations (HCIC 2017)
• Tangibly Enhancing Haptics (TEI 2015)(paper) (poster)(code)(code)
• Towards Supporting Situational Awareness using Tactile Feedback (3DUI 2014) (paper) (poster) (code)

Submitted Papers and Posters

• RAGged Edges: The Double-Edged Sword of Retrieval-Augmented Chatbots (SIGCHI 2024 - Rejected) (paper)
• Polling Latent Opinions: A Method for Computational Sociolinguistics Using Transformer Language Models (AAMAS 2022 - Rejected) (paper)
• Navigating Language Models with Synthetic Agents (AAMAS 2021 - Rejected (paper)
• Belief places and spaces: Mapping cognitive environments (JASSS - Rejected)(paper)
• Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Weapon Systems ( 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security - Rejected)(paper)
• Dungeons for Science: Mapping Belief Places and Spaces (CHIPLAY 2019 - Rejected)(paper)
• Echo Chambers: Modeling, Identifying, and Disrupting them (CHIIR 2017 - Rejected)
• Modeling the Law of Group Polarization (CSCW 2018 - Rejected)
• Modeling the Law of Group Polarization (Pysical Review E - Rejected)
• Trustworthy, Distrustworthy and Newsworthy, Fact Checking by Inferred Reputation (CSCW 2015 - Rejected) (paper)
• The development of a novel haptic prototype using force input/kinesthetic feedback (UIST 2012 - Rejected) (paper)

Related Websites

• philfeldman.com
• phifel.wordpress.com
• viztales.wordpress.com

Prior Papers

• The GeoGraph 3D Computational Laboratory: Network and Terrain Landscapes for RePast
• Combating Terrorist Networks: Current Research in Social Network Analysis for the New Warfighting Environment
• A Submarine Simulator Driven by a Hierarchical Real-Time Control System Architecture
• The Coevolution of Weapons and Aggression

United States Patents

• 7,931,470: Interface device and method for interfacing instruments to medical procedure simulation systems
• 7,864,164/8,638,308: Haptic Interface for Palpation Simulation
• 7,819,799: System and Method for Controlling Force applied to and Manipulation of Medical Instruments
• 7,727,117: Method and Apparatus for operatively controlling and Virtual Reality Scenario with a Physically Demanding Interfaces
• 7,331,226: Force measurement system for an isometric exercise device
• 7,308,831: Interface device and method for interfacing instruments to vascular access simulation systems
• 7,307,619, 7,202,851: Haptic interface for palpation simulation
• 7,121,982: Computer interactive isometric exercise system.
• 7,033,176: Motion platform system and method of rotating a motion platform about plural axes
• 6,817,973: Apparatus for controlling force for manipulation of medical instruments
• 6,470,302: Interface device and method for interfacing instruments to vascular access simulation systems
• 5,584,700: Virtual-reality based flycycle exercise machine