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SUMMARY
Principal Scientist with over 30 years experience in artificial intelligence (AI) R&D. Principle
Investigator / Project Manager (PI / PM) for multiple U.S. Government advanced research
agency (DARPA , IARPA , and HSARPA ) contracts that have involved:
Designing and implementing complex systems involving knowledge representation and
reasoning;
Developing and administering multi-participant evaluations (original challenge problems,
parameterized simulations, scoring metrics, experiment designs, and results analyses).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Led the (2008) Graph Unification effort for IARPAs Tangram programwrapped legacy
workflow components to make them semantically interoperate and provided a ToolKit making
it easy for others to wrap components
Led evaluation efforts for several AI technology R&D programs, working closely with
Government program managers to develop challenge problems that shape program
technology and application directions, including the following.
Led effort to design and develop a multiple-context facility supporting probabilistic utility-based
course-of-action trade-offs for the Ultra*Log military logistics agent-based planning/scheduling
environment (DARPA, 2001)
Conceived and proposed (as a TMM extension) a new inequality reasoning engine to support
reasoning about physical systems with abstraction; solicited and gained key academic
participation (1992)
Monitored contracts and performed in-house research in knowledge-based systems and logic
programming
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
1. Stephanie Strassel, Dan Adams, Henry Goldberg, Jonathan Herr, Ron Keesing, Daniel
Oblinger, Heather Simpson, Robert Schrag, and Jonathan Wright. The DARPA Machine
Reading ProgramEncouraging Linguistic and Reasoning Research with a Series of Reading
Tasks, International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010),
Valletta, Malta, May, 2010. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2010/pdf/862_Paper.pdf
2. Robert Schrag, Jon Pastor, Chris Long, Eric Peterson, Mark Cornwell, Lance Forbes, and
Stephen Cannon. Contributions to a Semantically-Based Intelligence Analysis Enterprise
Workflow System, 2009 Conference on Ontology for the Intelligence Community, George
Mason University C4I Center, October, 2009. http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-
aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-555/paper4.pdf
3. Robert Schrag, Masami Takikawa, Paul Goger, and James Eilbert, Performance Evaluation
for Automated Threat Detection, Journal of Advances in Information Fusion, 2(2), December,
2007, 7798. http://www.isif.org/5075D02.pdf
4. Robert Schrag and Masami Takikawa, Scoring Hypotheses from Threat Detection
Technologies: Analogies to Machine Learning Evaluation, 2007 AAAI Workshop on
Evaluation Methods for Machine Learning II.
5. Robert Schrag and Masami Takikawa, Scoring Hypotheses from Threat Detection
Technologies, 2006 AAAI Fall Symposium on Capturing and Using Patterns for Evidence
Detection. http://www.iet.com/ext/papers/IET-PE-lab-hypothesis-scoring-AAAI-Fall-06-
update.pdf
6. Robert Schrag, Masami Takikawa, Paul Goger, and James Eilbert, Scoring Alerts from Threat
Detection Technologies, 2006 AAAI Fall Symposium on Capturing and Using Patterns for
Evidence Detection. http://www.iet.com/ext/papers/IET-PE-lab-alert-scoring-AAAI-Fall-06-
update.pdf
7. Robert Schrag, A Performance Evaluation Laboratory for Threat Detection Technologies,
Performance Measures for Intelligent Systems workshop (PerMIS-2006).
http://www.iet.com/ext/papers/IET-Schrag-PE-lab-PerMIS-06-update.pdf
8. Mike Pool, Ken Murray, Julie Fitzgerald, Mala Mehrotra, Robert Schrag, Jim Blythe, Jihie Kim,
Hans Chalupsky, Pierluigi Miraglia, Thomas Russ, Dave Schneider. Evaluating Expert-
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Authored Rules for Military Reasoning, Proceedings of the 2 International Conference on
Knowledge Capture (K-CAP03), October 2325, 2003, Sanibel Island, FL, USA.
http://www.iet.com/Projects/RKF/QRP02/KCAP-03-COACritiquing-final.pdf
9. Ken Barker, Jim Blythe, Gary Borchardt, Vinay K. Chaudhri, Peter E. Clark, Paul Cohen, Julie
Fitzgerald, Ken Forbus, Yolanda Gil, Boris Katz, Jihie Kim, Gary King, Sunil Mishra, Clayton
Morrison, Ken Murray, Charley Otstott, Bruce Porter, Robert C. Schrag, Toms Uribe, Jeff
Usher, and Peter Z. Yeh. A Knowledge Acquisition Tool for Course of Action Analysis, In
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
(IAAI), 2003, 4350. http://www.ai.sri.com/pubs/files/975.pdf
10. Robert Schrag, Mike Pool, Vinay Chaudhri, Robert C. Kahlert, Joshua Powers, Paul Cohen,
Julie Fitzgerald, and Sunil Mishra. Experimental Evaluation of Subject Matter Expert-oriented
Knowledge Base Authoring Tools, in Measuring the Performance and Intelligence of
Systems: Proceedings of the 2002 PerMIS Workshop, August 1315, 2002, NIST Special
Publication 990, pp. 272279 (2002).
http://www.isd.mel.nist.gov/research_areas/research_engineering/Performance_Metrics/PerMI
S_2002_Proceedings/Schrag_Pool_Chaudhri_etc.pdf
11. Paul Cohen, Vinay Chaudhri, Adam Pease, and Robert Schrag. Does Prior Knowledge
Facilitate the Development of Knowledge-based Systems?, in Proceedings of the Fourteenth
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99) pp. 221226 (1999). www-
eksl.cs.umass.edu/papers/cohen-aaai99.pdf
12. Paul Cohen, Robert Schrag, Eric Jones, Adam Pease, Albert Lin, Barbara Starr, David
Gunning, and Murray Burke. The DARPA High-Performance Knowledge Bases Project, AI
Magazine 19:4 pp. 2549 (1998).