EDWIN PEDNAULT

Edwin Pednault joined IBM in January, 1996, as a Research Staff Member in the Data Abstraction Research Group. He is currently working on automated probabilistic modeling techniques for data mining applications. Previously, he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he worked on probabilistic modeling for retail sales forecasting, predicting failures in long-distance communication lines, handwriting recognition, and surface reconstruction in computer vision. In his spare time, he collaborates with his wife, Marla, on the mathematical analysis and prediction of nucleic acid atomic structure. Ed received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University for his thesis on the mathematical foundations of automatic planning. He also holds a master's degree in computer science from Stanford and a bachelor's in electrical engineering from McGill University.