John Yen

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John Yen is a professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. He is the Professor in Charge of the College of IST, and the Director of the Intelligent Agents Laboratory there.

Yen's long-term research interest is the capturing and modeling of human knowledge in software agents for supporting decision making, for improving the productivity and adaptibility of global enterprises, and for supporting individual and team learning in the digital information age. His current research activities as of 2006 include developing an agent-based teamwork model and self-adaptive personalization technologies. Yen has also been interested in the mining and learning of large-scale imprecise knowledge.

Yen has been a Principal investigator or co-Principal investigator of two multi-million-dollar research projects on intelligent agents: a project funded by the Army Digitization Office to develop agent-based models that capture the knowledge and processes of TOCs (Tactical Operations Center)s for the purpose of simulation, training, and decision supports; and a three million dollar MURI (Multi-University Research Initiative) project, funded by the Department of Defense and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, on developing an agent-based teamwork model for training AWACS staff. He is also leading other research projects regarding agents and web technologies through funding from the Army Research Laboratory and Dell.

Yen received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986. Between 1986 and 1989, he was the main architect at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) for an artificial intelligence architecture that pioneers a knowledge-level integration of a logic-based knowledge representation scheme with production rules. Before joining IST in 2001, he was a Professor of Computer Science and the Director of Center for Fuzzy Logic, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems at Texas A&M University. Yen received the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator Award in 1992. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.