Ben Choi, Ph.D. & Pilot, has a Ph.D.
degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and has a Pilot certificate for flying
airplanes and helicopters. He is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Louisiana
Tech University. He was a visiting Research Scholar at DePaul University, University
of Western Australia, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He had
worked in the computer industry as a Computer Consultant and as a System Performance
Engineer at Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs). He received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees
from The Ohio State University, studied Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering,
and Computer Science. His areas of research include Parallel Computing, Fuzzy Systems,
Data Mining, Semantic Web, Intelligent Agents, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence,
and Humanoid Robots. His future research includes developing advanced software and
hardware methods for building intelligent machines and theorizing the Universe as
a Computer.