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Adjunct Faculty, Department of Computer Science @ From January 1993 to Present (22 years 11 months) Senior Research Scientist, Autonomous Systems @ Led advanced R & D projects with annual budgets of several million dollars. Infused advanced artificial intelligence technology into mainstream operations leading to cost reductions of over $1M/yr, over 10x productivity improvement, and several-fold reductions in turnaround time, and anomaly rate. Led deployment of advanced artificial intelligence software to Earth Observing One, Three Corner Sat, Intelligent Payload Experiment (IPEX), Mars Exploration Rover, and Rosetta Orbiter missions. From December 1990 to Present (25 years) Research Scientist @ From January 2011 to April 2014 (3 years 4 months) Chief Scientist @ Development of advanced operations technology for private aviation. From September 2006 to September 2009 (3 years 1 month) Councilor @ From 2003 to 2006 (3 years) Summer Intern @ From 1985 to 1985 (less than a year)

PhD, Computer Science @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign From 1985 to 1990 MS, Computer Science @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign From 1985 to 1987 BS, Computer Science, Minors in Economics and Mathematics @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign From 1982 to 1985 University High School, Urbana From 1981 to 1983 Steve Chien is skilled in: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Robotics, Software, Machine Learning, Algorithms, Pattern Recognition, Software Engineering, Image Processing, Mathematical Modeling, LaTeX, Information Retrieval, Computer Vision, Simulations, Neural Networks