News Flash
Dr. Sheppard has accepted an appointment as the new Right Now Technologies Distinguished Professor in Computer Science at Montana State University. He will be moving to Bozeman, MT at the end of August. A link to his new web page will be provided once he arrives.
Biographical Sketch
Dr. John Sheppard is an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. Recently, he was elected as an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to system-level diagnosis and prognosis." Prior to joining Hopkins, he was a Fellow at ARINC Incorporated in Annapolis, MD where he worked for almost 20 years. Dr. Sheppard is the founding director of the Numerical Intelligent Systems Laboratory at Hopkins where he performs research in Bayesian classification, factorial hidden Markov models, recurrent neural networks, and reinforcement learning. In addition, Dr. Sheppard is active in IEEE Standards activities. Currently, he serves as a member of the IEEE Computer Society Standards Activities Board and is the Vice Chair of IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee 20 on Test and Diagnosis for Electronic Systems. He has served as co-chair of the Diagnostic and Maintenance Control Subcommittee of SCC20 and as an official US delegate to the International Electrotechnical Commission's Technical Committee 93 on Design Automation.
Education
- BS, Computer Science (magna cum laude), Southern Methodist University, 1983
- MS, Computer Science, The Johns Hopkins University, 1990
- PhD, Computer Science, The Johns Hopkins University, 1997