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Featured PhD Student - December 2007

 

Kennie Jones
PhD, Old Dominion University

 


Kennie H. Jones is a Ph.D. student and is preparing to present his dissertation, "Biology-Inspired Approach for Communal Behavior in Massively Deployed Sensor Networks". It presents an approach for sensor network design where decisions are made in local neighborhoods to affect a global goal. In this area of research, he has co-authored 16 papers which he presented at international conferences in the USA, China, Australia, Mexico, Canada, Italy, and Germany.

Kennie is a computer science researcher in the Advanced Engineering Environments Branch of the Systems Engineering Directorate of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA, and is the recipient of numerous awards for his work there. He has a B.S. degree in Biology from Christopher Newport College, Newport News, VA and a M.S. degree in Computer Science from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.