Bahill ( Eye Tracking & Baseball Hall of Fame ), Grad School and Systems Engineering Curricula

Bahill's Lab Research Assistant and Departments System Admin supporting professors research.

Bahill is a Systems Control Theory INCOSE fellow

http://sysengr.engr.arizona.edu/

https://sie.engineering.arizona.edu/news-events/bahills-baseball-vision-study-still-hit 

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Stark was Bahill's Professor - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=stark+bahill&t=chromentp&ia=web

Together at China Lake they invented night vision capabilities. 

In Bahill's lab I supported his eye tracking research group and the optical equipment generating targets, an infrared eye detector glasses, an the analytics packages that recorded the target state space trajectories, the horizontal, vertical and rotational eye movement - state space trajectories, along with the computed differentials between the target and what the eye was looking at.  There was also a baseball /  bat rig with same outputs, that proves that good batters are good predictors as it is physically impossible to keep your eye on the ball at the plate. Met Ted Williams the day after Pete Rose had surpassed Ty Cobbs record of 4092 hits.  

Also worked on data acquisition software device drives for BSD Unix systems and microprocessor systems supporting class work in systems control theory.  Developed early rule based advisory and diagnostic systems for computer diagnostics.  Early forms of Neural Networks were explored but due to limitations associated with gaps in data didn't prove to be useful in Bahill's lab.  Most neural network formulations don't encode data gaps in time - all zeros for time spans.

The lab PhD researchers were working with Bahill to ascertain various aspects of eye movements - whether the eye state change movements were independent or dependent.  The PhD research group also contributed to refinements and validations in Bahill's fifth order non-linear differential eye movement equation.

Full Ride Scholarship from Bahill including PhD offer email that I missed until after I had signed a paper that I owed $10K to Bell Communications Research, after they took my 20 boxes of books away in back of a truck.  Original offer from JPL was apologetically rescinded after Space Shuttle blew up and hiring freeze was instituted. 

Systems Engineering PhD curricula includes the following https://grad.arizona.edu/catalog/programinfo/SIEPHD

Since my bachelors was in Computer Science I worked one semester of remedial work by taking Physics, Differential Equations, PDE, Probability and Statistics, Linear Programming that were followed by graduate level courses in same topics, specifically:

  • IE 508: Reliability Engineering (3.00 credits)
  • SIE 512: Human Factors Engineering Research Methods (3.00 credits)
  • SIE 522: Engineering Decision Making under Uncertainty (3.00 credits)
  • SIE 525: Queuing Theory (3.00 credits)
  • SIE 536: Experiment Design and Regression (3.00 credits)
  • SIE 540: Survey of Optimization Methods (3.00 credits)
  • SIE 544: Linear Programming (3.00 credits)
  • SIE 546: Algorithms, Graphs, and Networks (3.00 credits)
  • SIE 550: Theory of Linear Systems (3.00 credits)
  • SIE 554A: Systems Engineering Process (3.00 credits)
  • SIE 596: Special Topics in SIE (3.00 credits)
  • SIE 640: Integer and Combinatorial Optimization (3.00 credits)
Separately, I helped with an AT&T research project, dynamic programming - integer programming model formulation to optimize the national telecom network with new facilities. 

 


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