OBJECTIVE

I seek a position in the development of computer systems that demonstrate ability in the use of natural language. Machine translation, natural language interfaces, and the development of general ontologies are all of primary interest to me. Other topics related to my dissertation work are optical character recognition, handwriting recognition, and other tasks that involve perception.

EDUCATION

Indiana University - Bloomington, IN
Ph.D., Computer Science and Cognitive Science - October, 2000
M.S., Computer Science - May, 1997
Dartmouth College - Hanover, NH
B.A., Computer Science, Psychology - June, 1989
Western Reserve Academy - Hudson, OH
Graduate - June, 1986

WORK EXPERIENCE

NASA - Ames Research Center - Mountain View, CA
Research Scientist
Fall 2000-Present
Perform original research on human psychology and computer modeling, developing systems that predict possible causes of error in aviation and aerospace.

Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University - Bloomington, IN
Researcher
Summer 1993-Summer 2000
Develop and implement computer models of processes involved in human creativity and cognition. Many aspects of this ground-breaking research are undertaken independently, and others in collaboration with other students and faculty, including adviser Douglas Hofstadter, a noted leader in the field.

Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University - Bloomington, IN
Network Administrator
Summer 1997-Summer 2000
Handle day to day maintenance of a network of five Sun workstations in a UNIX environment. This includes the center's mail server and web server.

American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University - Bloomington, IN
Consultant/Programmer
Winter 2000-Summer 2000
Participate with a small team of developers in the design and implementation of a suite of interactive software tools for research on and the teaching of Native American languages. This involves interlinear bilingual documents, bilingual dictionaries, search tools for corpora, and syntactic, phonological, and semantic analysis.

Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Technologica - Trento, Italy
Researcher
Autumn 1993-Summer 1994
Collaborated on research on human perception, in work involving statistical analysis of psychological experiments as well as computational models of human perceptual behavior.

Western Reserve Academy - Hudson, OH
Faculty in Math, Computer Programming, and the Humanities
Computer Coordinator
Autumn 1989-Spring 1992
Taught elite students in a variety of subject areas, maintained a network of about fifteen Macintosh computers, and oversaw a variety of other aspects of student life in a boarding school environment.

SKILLS

Interpersonal
A leader by nature with strong interpersonal and communication skills. Extremely comfortable in public speaking.

Computer Programming
Extensive experience as a computer programmer, skilled in designing fresh approaches to problems, adapting existing systems, and mastering new programming languages and environments rapidly.
Extensive experience with C, C++, Scheme, LISP, UNIX, and HTML.

Cognitive Science, AI
Extensive study of cognitive science, and psychology in general.
Extensive experience implementing programs representing a number of areas in artificial intelligence, including symbolic AI, neural network models, genetic algorithms, and hybrid architectures.

Language, Linguistics
Formal and personal study of the basic principles underlying linguistics.
Read, write, and converse in Spanish and Italian on an advanced level.
Read, write, and converse in German on a basic level.
Modest experience with and use of Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, French, and Czech.
Study of the principles underlying many other languages, including Navajo, Russian, and Pawnee.

PUBLICATIONS

Representative publications include:

Letter Spirit (part two): Modeling Creativity in a Visual Domain
John Rehling
Ph.D. thesis, Indiana University, May 2000

Letter Spirit: A Model of Creativity in a Visual Domain (art show)
John Rehling and Douglas Hofstadter
In the proceedings of the XVI Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics
New York, August 2000

The Parallel Terraced Scan: An Optimization for an Agent-Oriented Architecture
John Rehling and Douglas Hofstadter
In the proceedings of the IEEE First International Conference on Intelligent Processing Systems
Beijing, October 1997

Letter Perception: Toward a conceptual approach
Gary McGraw, John Rehling & Robert Goldstone
In the proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Atlanta, August 1994