Other Awards and Honors
2006 Awards
Olga Anna Kuchar Selected to Participate in National Academy of Engineering 2006 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
Olga Anna Kuchar, Computational and Information Sciences Directorate, has been selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's 2006 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. The three-day symposium, to be held in Dearborn, Michigan in September, brings together a select group of the nation's outstanding young engineers from industries, universities and government laboratories. Olga currently is conducting research on methods for teaching computers to solve problems like humans do; that is, strategizing, identifying hidden relationships or patterns in data, and associating and applying different areas of knowledge to the problem. This methodology is achieved through mathematical and logical techniques that can be converted to computer code. She also conducts research on improving human understanding of information through visualizations, applying game-based techniques to real-world issues, and encoding graph storyboards for quick data pattern identification. (announced 6/1/2006)