ALEXANDER SHOULSON
 (267) 888-6622
 shoulson@seas.upenn.edu
 http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~shoulson

EDUCATION
 University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA, USA          Expected Fall 2014
 Doctor of Philosophy, Computer and Information Science
 Advisor: Norman I. Badler

 Hamilton College
 Clinton, NY, USA                                                   Spring 2010
 Bachelor of Arts, Graduated Summa Cum Laude, GPA 3.87/4.0
 Concentrations: Computer Science (Honors), Mathematics (Honors)

PUBLICATIONS
 L. Sun, A. Shoulson, P. Huang, N. Nelson, W. Qin, A. Nenkova, N. Badler. 
 "Animating Synthetic Dyadic Conversations with Variations Based on Context and 
 Agent Attributes." International Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual 
 Worlds, 2012.

 A. Shoulson, F. Garcia, M. Jones, R. Mead, N. Badler. "Parameterizing Behavior
 Trees." Fourth International Conference on Motion in Games (MIG), 2011.

 D. Markowitz, J. Kider, A. Shoulson, N. Badler. "Intelligent Camera Control 
 Using Behavior Trees." Fourth International Conference on Motion in Games 
 (MIG), 2011.

 A. Shoulson, N. Badler. "Event- Centric Control for Background Agents." Fourth
 International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS), 2011.

 A. Shoulson, D. Garcia, N. Badler. "Selecting Agents for Narrative Roles."
 Fourth Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT4) at the AI and
 Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference (AIIDE), 2011.

 A. Shoulson, K. Pearson. "Procedure- Level Authorization for Java Remote
 Method Invocation Using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Credentials." DTIC Technical
 Report, Air Force Research Lab, Rome, NY, 2010.

EXPERIENCE
 Math Tech                                             Summer 2009, Summer 2010
 Air Force Research Laboratory Rome Research Site, Rome, NY, USA 
 - Engineered a scheme for method-level certificate authorization in Java RMI
 - Developed a suite of web services for AFRL domain management and security

 Head Teaching Assistant                                Fall 2007 - Spring 2010
 Hamilton College Department of Computer Science, Clinton, NY, USA 
 - Managed a staff of 11 teaching assistants and coordinated department events

 Technical Consultant                                               Summer 2008
 Corra Labs, Glenside, PA, USA 
 - Contributed to the development of a massively-multiplayer online game in C++
 - Lead the software design for a multiplayer online social Flash game, and 
   remotely managed its development by an 5-person overseas programming team

PROJECTS
 Project Lead                                             Spring 2011 - Present
 Agent Development and Prototyping Testbed (ADAPT)
 A Unity3D-based platform designed for rapid development of fully-realized 
 virtual worlds containing crowds of 3D actors. Provides a modular framework
 for capabilities including locomotion, steering, sitting, reaching, and
 gestural animation. Integrates multiple graphics libraries including Recast
 navigation and ICT Smartbody.

HONORS
 Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society                         Spring 2010
 Rusty Smith Memorial Teaching Prize in Computer Science              Fall 2009

                                                     Last updated: August, 2012