Sven Brueckner—New Vectors

Dr. Brueckner, Senior Systems Engineer for TechTeam Government Solutions, Inc. is a principal investigator, project manager and technical lead in several government-funded research and development projects focused on domains such as information management and collaboration support, prediction in adversarial reasoning, distributed control of autonomous vehicles, and automotive design.

Dr. Brueckner has been active in the field of multi-agent system’s research for more than ten years. His doctoral thesis “Return from the Ant – Synthetic Ecosystems for Manufacturing Control” researches the theoretical foundations of agent system design and applies its findings to complex manufacturing control systems. His research lays the foundation for NewVectors’ polyagent modeling and swarming control approach. Dr. Brueckner has authored over twenty papers on agent-based and complex systems’ theory and application and he is named inventor on four recent patents or preliminary patent filings. His strong standing in the academic community is also reflected in his participation in Program and Organizational Committees of many prestigious conferences and workshops.

After joining the NewVectors in spring of 2000, Dr. Brueckner has been a technical lead on several agent-focused research and development efforts. He was the principal architect in the ADAPTIV project (DARPA JFACC) and DARPA WASP seedling study focusing on self-organizing UAV control, principal investigator in various NewVectors Internal Research and Development (IR&D) efforts, leader of the CASANDRA project (DARPA IPTO KnowledgePlane) on self-organizing MANET's, and contributing researcher in the STRONG project (DARPA RAID) on prediction in urban combat. Currently, Dr. Brueckner is the technical lead in the IARPA CASE MASTER and PAINT SEEDS projects after leading the DTO NIMD Ant CAFÉ project. He also leads a NewVectors project in the ONR Counter-IED Basic Research program, extending the fundamental science of predictive polyagent systems.