Servi, Les (MITRE)

Les Servi
Principal Operations Research Analyst, The MITRE Corporation
Greater Boston Area

Topics

Tracking with Maritime Application: An Overview
This talk motivates a renewed interest in multi-sensor multi-target maritime tracking drawn from a national consensus for improved maritime domain awareness. This talk then introduces models of trackers (e.g., optimal Bayesian estimators, linear and non-linear filters, particle filters, and interactive multiple mode models), methods of data association (e.g., gating, greedy nearest neighbor models, joint probabilistic data association (JPDA), multiple hypothesis tracking (MHT), and multi-dimensional assignment), and methods of fusing multiple sources of data.

The talk will end with a simulated example of maritime tracking and a brief discussion of the author's attempts to track and detect actual pirate attacks off the coast of Africa.

Background

Sc.B./Sc.M. Applied Math, Brown University, May, 1977
M.S. Engineering, Harvard University, May, 1978
Ph.D. Engineering, Harvard University, May, 1981

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: The MITRE Corporation: 2009- present; MIT Lincoln Laboratory, 2000-2009; GTE Laboratories, 1983-2000; Bell Laboratories, 1981-1983; MIT & Harvard University ( Sabbatical leave from GTE), 1989-90.

INFORMS ACTIVITIES: INFORMS Fellow, 2004. Board of Directors, 1999-2002, 2007-2008; Treasurer/Executive Committee of Board, 2001-02; VP Sections / Societies, 2007-2008; Board Division Director, 1999-2000; Chair, Boston Chapter, 2005-present; Chair, Applied Probability Society, 2000-2002; Chair, Telecommunication Section, 1994-1995; Associate Editor, ORSA Journal on Computing, 1992-1998; Associate Editor, Operations Research, 2000-2002; Associate Editor, Management Science, 2006-2009; Subdivision Council, 2000, 2005-2008; Chair, Outreach Committee, 2000-2002.

Other INFORMS Committees: Program Committee of first five ORSA Telecommunication special meetings, Advisory Council to INFORMS Conference on OR Practice, Finance Committee, Investment Committee, Nominating Committee, Strategic Planning Committee and ORSA Prize Committee.

Chaired many invited sessions at INFORMS meetings; chaired several clusters in Telecommunication and Applied Probability.

PUBLICATIONS: Author of over 40 articles, in area of applied probability (with a focus on queueing, queueing inferring, and polling system) and telecommunications many of which were motivated by actual problems. 11 US Patents in subjects including verifying identification, low density parity codes, wireless admission control, and call routing. One letter in the Wall Street Journal. One publication about π.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Received GTE’s highest Technical Award from GTE’s CEO for a telecommunication inventory policy solution with multi-million dollar saving. Assisted GTE Airfone with testimony to the FCC. Served on Ph.D. thesis committees at MIT, Harvard, and Boston University. Served on a National Science Foundation Panel. Served as a judge of the Mass. State Science Fair for over 10 years. Senior member of IEEE. Co-editor of two special issues of Telecommunication Systems.