About

I received my computer science PhD in 2015 from the University of Southern California with a focus on robotic mapping in sensor-challenged environments.

Since then, I’ve been working at The Aerospace Corporation applying my skills to space systems with the goal of improving the scale and speed of mission assurance activities.

I’ve been conducting research on extracting computational principles from the brain and putting them into algorithmic form for high-performance applications. This involves developing an entirely new paradigm for computation and representation that is fundamentally different from traditional neural network models.

My software tools, visualizations, and analysis can be found in my below software projects and blog posts.

My Info

• Linkedin
• Contact Form
• Resume/CV

My Research

• Github: where I work on many of my software projects
• CorticalCircuits.com: my research website and blog
• Forum: my discourse site for discussion on my research interestes
• Digital Garden: linked notes on research concepts and ideas

Software

• dcc-core: Rust-based Discrete Cortical Circuits (DCC) core library (not released)
  • Comes with web-based interactive dashboard demos
• gnome_visuals: Visualizations of different encodings and representations using bit patterns
• gnomecode: A library for the instrumentation and analysis of scalar encoding algorithms that produce sparse binary codes for consumption by DCC algorithms.
• OgmaNeoRs: A Rust port of the original C++ AOgmaNeo implementing Sparse Predictive Hierarchies (SPH))
• legacy_gnome_gallery: Rendered images and videos from legacy visualization code
  • Generated a gallery website
• legacy_gnome_visuals: Historical code used for visualizing encoders in various ways
• brainblocks: Practical tool for building ML applications with HTM-like algorithms
• opaque: A framework for exploring and mapping confined environments with proprioception (PhD Thesis Project 2015)

Publications

• J. Everist, W-M Shen, Mapping Opaque and Confined Environments using Proprioception, IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Kobe, Japan, 2009.
• M .Krivokon, C.H. Chiu, J.Everist, M. Rubenstein, J. Venkatesh, W.-M. Shen, Multimode Locomotion for Reconfigurable Robots, Autonomous Robots, 20(2):165-177, 2006.
• Everist, J., Mogharei, K., Suri, H., Ranasinghe, N., Khoshnevis, B., Will, P., Shen, W.-M., A System for In-Space Assembly, International Conference on Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Sendai, Japan, 2004.