Dr. Jens G. Pohl, Senior Technical Advisor & Senior Director of San Luis Obispo Operations

Dr. Jens G. Pohl has over twenty years of experience on the application of distributed artificial intelligence methodologies to decision-support systems in military command and control, logistical planning and engineering design, and homeland security. Earlier in his career he taught at the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia, until the end of 1972, then moved to the United States and held the position of Professor of Architecture at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. At the Collaborative Agent Design Research Center (CADRC) at Cal Poly, he developed and implemented distributed computing applications in which multiple computer-based and human agents collaborate in the solution of complex problems. Dr. Pohl also directed the design, development and implementation of the Integrated Computerized Deployment System (ICODES) under the sponsorship of the Army's Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC). ICODES was selected as the 'migration system' for ship load-planning by the Joint Transportation CIM Center (JTCC) of USTRANSCOM and was adapted to accommodate the specific embarkation needs of the Marine Corps. Dr. Pohl is the author of two US patents, several books, and numerous research papers covering artificial intelligence; human cognition; collaborative problem solving and decision making; engineering design; and, systems integration. Dr. Pohl holds a B.Arch., University of Melbourne, 1965; M.Bdg.Sc. and Ph.D., University of Sydney 1967 and 1970.