About Filip Perich, Ph.D.

Employment History

• 9/2006 - Present, Software Functional Manager, Shared Spectrum Company, Vienna, Virginia, USA
• 10/2005 - Present, Senior Software Engineer, Shared Spectrum Company, Vienna, Virginia, USA
• 9/2004 - Present, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• 6/2004 - 10/2005, Senior Research Engineer, Cougaar Software, Inc., McLean, Virginia, USA
• 1/2004 - 5/2004, Instructor, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• 5/2003 - 8/2003, IBM Doctorate Fellow, IBM Centre for Advanced Studies, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• 5/2002 - 8/2002, Research Intern, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California, USA
• 12/1999 - 5/2004, Graduate Research Assistant, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• 8/1999 - 12/1999, Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• 1/1998 - 8/1999, Sr. Student Developer, Mellon Grant Program, Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland, USA
• 8/1996 - 1/1998, Senior Administrator, Academic Computing, Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland, USA

Education

• 2004, Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Dissertation Topic: On Peer-to-Peer Data Management in Pervasive Computing Environments, Summa Cum Laude
• 2002, M.S. in Computer Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Thesis Topic: Query Routing and Processing in Mobile Ad-hoc Environments, Summa Cum Laude
• 1999, A.B. in Mathematics, Washington College, Departmental Honors in Mathematics, The William Gover Duvall '30 Mathematics Award, Summa Cum Laude

Core Professional Competencies

• Project Development Manager
• Software Engineering Section Manager
• Research Scientist and Principal Investigator
• Team Leader and Mentor
• Software Architect and Programmer

Significant Accomplishments

• Principal Investigator, project lead, and/or technical lead for architecting, developing, transferring, and integrating Shared Spectrum Company’s machine-actionable policy language and policy-based control middleware in support of military and commercial efforts, including DARPA Policy-based Automated WAN Configuration and Management project, Wireless Network after Next (WNaN) Adaptive Network Development (WAND) project, WNaN Wireless Adaptable Network Node (WANN) project, NeXt Generation Communications (XG) program, XG follow-on efforts, Cognitive Network Management System project, and National Institute of Justice's Cognitive Radio Management projec
• Author or co-author of 3 refereed book chapters, 9 journal articles, 14 conference articles, and 7 workshop articles
• Track chair of 1 conference, organizing committee member for 2 conferences, co-chair for 1 workshop, and technical program committee member for over 40 conferences and workshops
• Dissertation committee member to 4 Ph.D. and M.S. students
• Participant in US, EU, and international standardization efforts focusing on next generation radio and spectrum management

Domain Expertise

• Artificial / Computational Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Knowledge and Database Systems, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Pervasive / Mobile Computing, Security, and Semantic Web