Ben Choi,
Ph.D. & Pilot, has a Ph.D. degree in
Electrical and Computer Engineering and has a Pilot certificate for flying
airplanes and helicopters. He is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at
Louisiana Tech University. He was a visiting Research Scholar at DePaul
University, University of Western Australia, and Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology. He had worked in the computer industry as a Computer Consultant
and as a System Performance Engineer at Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs). He
received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from The Ohio State University, studying
Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Computer Science. His areas of
research include Parallel Computing, Fuzzy Systems, Data Mining, Semantic Web,
Intelligent Agents, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Humanoid
Robots. His future research includes developing advanced software and hardware
methods for building intelligent machines and theorizing the Universe as a
Computer.