A Note to Prospective Graduate Students
Please be advised that my lab is currently at capacity. I am not accepting new graduate students at this time.
Biographical Sketch
Dr. John Sheppard is a Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Montana State University and previously was the RightNow Technologies Distinguished Professor in Computer Science at MSU. Recently, he was named Interim Director of MSU's Center for Science, Technology, Etchics, and Society (C-STES). He holds a BS in computer science from Southern Methodist University and an MS and PhD in computer science from Johns Hopkins University. In 2007, he was elected as an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to system-level diagnosis and prognosis." Prior to entering academia, he was a Fellow at ARINC Incorporated, a defense aerospace company in Annapolis, MD where he worked for almost 20 years. Dr. Sheppard performs research in probabilistic graphical models, deep learning, evolutionary and swarm-based algorithms, distributed optimization, and applications to system-level test, diagnosis, and predictive health. Recently, his research has expanded into the areas of prostate cancer diagnosis, precision agriculture, and wildfire management. He has published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed conference proceedings and journals as well as two books on the subject of system-level diagnosis. In addition, Dr. Sheppard is active in IEEE Standards activities where, currently, he serves as the chair of the IEEE P2848 Prognostics and Health Management for Automatic Test Systems standards development working group under SCC20. He is also a member of the IEEE P2976 eXplainable AI standards working group.
Education
- BS, Computer Science (magna cum laude), Southern Methodist University, 1983
- MS, Computer Science, The Johns Hopkins University, 1990
- PhD, Computer Science, The Johns Hopkins University, 1997