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Elyon DeKoven graduated from the University
of California at Santa Cruz with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics
with honors: honors in mathematics, college honors and Phi Beta
Kappa society membership. Following graduation, he organized
the Creative Math Festival for Santa Cruz
County, with a grant from a local community arts organization. Events were
organized in collaboration with the
Dr. Schaffer and Mr. Stern Dance Ensemble and Dale Seymour Publications, along with other artists,
schools and mathematicians.
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Elyon worked at Hewlett-Packard
Laboratories, in Palo Alto, with Moshe Zloof and Ravi Krishnamurthy,
from 1992 to 1999. At HP Labs, he helped develop new visual
programming languages for non-programmers. Application domains
included home and desktop automation, as well as telecommunications
management. Elyon took time off from HP to get a Master of Arts in
mathematics from University of California at Davis, finishing in
1994. He left HP Labs in 1999 to pursue a Ph.D. at Delft University
of Technology in the Intelligence in Products Group, resulting in a patent, a doctoral dissertation and
numerous publications. Following graduation, Elyon worked at Soar Technology as the Principle Investigator on a multi-year multi-million dollar research and development project for the US Army, involving human interaction with intelligent automation for planning and control of multiple unmanned (uninhabited) robotic vehicles. |
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