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Evan W. Patton
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Department of Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Winslow Bldg Rm 2132
Troy, NY, USA 12180
Email: (first 5 letters of last name + first initial) @ rpi . edu
Phone: +1 (401) 484-7865

Education:

• 2009 - Present: Pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science
  Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
  Advisor: Deborah L. McGuinness
  
• 2010 - 2012: Pursuing a M.S. in Cognitive Science
  Department of Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
  Advisor: Wayne D. Gray
  
• 2006-2009: Dual B.S. in Computer Science and Psychology
  Department of Computer Science; Department of Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
  Summa cum Laude (3.96/4)

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Publications (sorted by date)

• Patton, E.W., Seyed, P., Wang, P., Fu, L., McGuinness, D.L., Dein, F.J., & Bristol, R.S. (Submitted). SemantEco: A Semantically-powered Modular Architecture for Integrating Distributed Environmental and Ecological Data.
• John, B.E., Patton, E.W., Gray, W.D., & Morrison, D.F. (2012). Tools for Predicting the Duration and Variability of Skilled Performance without Skilled Performers. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (October 22-26, 2012, Boston, MA).
• Patton, E.W., Gray, W.D., & John, B.E. (2012). Automated CPM-GOMS Modeling from Human Data. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (October 22-26, 2012, Boston, MA).
• Wang, P., Fu L., Patton, E.W., McGuinness, D.L., Dein, F.J., & Bristol, R.S. (2012). Towards Semantically-enabled Exploration and Analysis of Environmental Ecosystems. In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on eScience (October 8-12, 2012, Chicago, IL).
• Wang, P., Fu, L., Patton, E.W., McGuinness, D.L., Dein, F.J., & Bristol, R.S. (2012). SemantEco Extension for Natural Resource Managers. Tech. Report. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
• Difranzo, D., Graves, A., Erickson, J.S., Ding, L., Michaelis, J., Lebo, T., Patton, E.W., Williams, G.T., Li, X., Zhengg, J.G., Flores, J., McGuinness, D.L., & Hendler, J. (2011). The Web is My Back-end: Creating Mashups with Linked Open Government Data. In Linking Government Data. ISBN: 978-1-4614-1766-8.
• Patton, E.W. (2012). Automated Protocol Analysis for Extracting First-Pass Descriptive Cognitive Models from Human Experimental Data. Master's Thesis. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
• Wang, P., Zheng, J., Patton, E.W., Lebo, T., Ding, L., Luciano, J.S., & McGuinness, D.L. (2011). Next Generation Environmental Informatics as exemplified by the Tetherless World Semantic Water Quality Portal. In Proceedings of AGU Fall Meeting 2011 (December 5-9, 2011, San Francisco, CA).
• Patton, E.W., West, P., Greer, R., & Jin, B. (2011). Publishing and Editing of Semantically-Enabled Scientific Metadata Across Multiple Web Platforms: Challenges and Experiences. In Proceedings of AGU Fall Meeting 2011 (December 5-9, 2011, San Francisco, CA).
• Patton, E.W., Wang, P., Zheng, J., Fu, L., Lebo, T., Ding, L., Liu, Q., Luciano, J.S., & McGuinness, D.L. (2011). Assessing Health Effects of Water Pollution Using a Semantic Water Quality Portal. In Proceedings of the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (October 23-27, 2011, Bonn, Germany).
• Wang, P., Zheng, J., Patton, E.W., Lebo, T., Ding, L., Liu, Q., Luciano, J.S., & McGuinness, D.L. (2011). A Semantic Portal for Next Generation WMonitoring Systems. In Proceedings of the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (October 23-27, 2011, Bonn, Germany).
• Zheng, J., Wang, P., Patton, E.W., Lebo, T., Luciano, J.S., & McGuinness, D.L. (2011). A Semantically-Enabled Provenance-Aware Water Quality Portal. In Proceedings of the Environmental Information Management Conference (September 28-29, 2011, Santa Barbara, CA).
• Wing, P., Zheng J., Fu, L., Patton, E.W., Lebo, T., Ding, L., Liu, Q., Luciano, J.S., & McGuinness, D.L. (2011). TWC-SWQP: A Semantic Portal for Next Generation Environmental Monitoring. Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
• McGuinness, D.L. & Patton, E.W. (2011). A Semantic Sommelier as an Ontology-Powered Mobile Social Application and a Pedagogical Tool. In Proceedings of Web Science 2011 (July 25, 2011, Koblenz, Germany).
• DiFranzo, D. & Patton, E.W. (2011). Building Mashups for the Linked Data Cloud. SemTech 2011 (San Francisco, CA, Jun 5-9 2011).
• Patton, E.W., West, P., Rozell, E., & Zheng, J. (2010). A Modular Framework for Transforming Structured Data into HTML with Machine-Readable Annotations. In: 2010 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (San Francisco, CA, Dec 13-17, 2010).
• Patton, E.W., DiFranzo, D., & McGuinness, D.L. (2010). End-User Programming and the Advent of Sharable, Social Machines. In: Social Data on the Web Workshop (co-located with the International Semantic Web Conference, Shanghai, China, Nov 7-11, 2010).
• Patton, E.W., DiFranzo, D., & McGuinness, D.L. (2010). SAF: A Provenance-tracking Framework for Interoperable Semantic Applications. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Provenance and Annotation Workshop. (Troy, NY, Jun 15-16, 2010), pp. 73--77.
• Patton, E.W. & Gray, W.D. (2010). SANLab-CM: A Tool for Incorporating Stochastic Operations into Activity Network Modeling. Behavior Research Methods, 42(3), 877--883.
• Patton, E.W. & McGuinness, D.L. (2010). Scaling the Wall: Experiences Adapting a Semantic Web Application to Utilize Social Networks on Mobile Devices. In: Web Science 2010 (Raleigh, NC, Apr 26, 2010)
• Patton, E.W. & Gray, W.D. (2009). SANLab-CM: A Tool for Incorporating Stochastic Operations into Activity Network Modeling. In: Proceedings of the 39th annual meeting of the Society of Computers in Psychology (Nov 19 2009), Boston, MA.
• Patton, E.W. & McGuinness, D.L. (2009). Tetherless World Mobile Wine Agent: An Application for Semantics on Mobile Devices. In: H. Alani & T. Tudorache (Eds.) Poster and Demonstration session of the Eighth annual International Semantic Web Conference (Oct 25-29, 2009), Chantilly, VA.
• Patton, E.W. & McGuinness, D.L. (2009). The Mobile Wine Agent: Pairing Wine with the Social Semantic Web. In: J. Breslin, U. Bojars, A. Passant, & S. Fernandez (Eds.) Proceedings of the Social Data on the Web workshop (co-located with the Eighth annual International Semantic Web Conference, Chantilly, VA, Oct 25-29, 2009).
• Patton, E.W., Gray, W.D., & Schoelles, M.J. (2009). SANLab-CM - The Stochastic Activity Network Laboratory for Cognitive Modeling. In: Proceedings of the 53rd annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 53(21), 1654--1658. San Antonio, TX.
• Patton, E.W. (2009). Revisiting Project Ernestine: Automated Building of CPM-GOMS Models from ACT-R Model Traces (Bachelor's Thesis). Department of Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
• Neth, H., Patton, E.W., Banas, S., Schoelles, M.J., & Gray, W.D. (2008). Integrating Semantic and Visual Aspects of Online Information Search. In: V. Sloutsky, B. Love, & K. McRae (Eds.) Poster at the 30th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX.: Cognitive Science Society.

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Professional Societies

• 2010-Present: Member of the American Geophysical Union
• 2009: Member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
• Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Computing and Information Disciplines Honor Society
  • 2010-Present: President
  • 2009-10: Vice President
  • 2008-09: Membership Committee Chairman

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Honors and Scholarships

• 2010 - Outstanding Graduate Student of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's School of Science
• 2010 - Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation
• 2009 - Rensselaer Founders Award of Excellence
• 2009 - Paul McGloin Outstanding Undergraduate in Computer Science
• 2008 - Darrin Foundation Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
• 2006 - Rensselaer Medalist
• 2006 - Valedictorian of Mount Hope High School, Class of 2006

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