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Alexander
H. Levis, Sc.D.
Chief Scientist U.S. Air Force, Professor, George
Mason University
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Dr.
Alexander H. Levis is the Chief Scientist of the Air Force,
on leave from George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, where
he is University Professor of Electrical, Computer, and
Systems Engineering and where he heads the System Architectures
Laboratory of the C3I Center.
Dr.
Levis was educated at MIT where he received the BS (1965),
MS (1965), ME (1967), and Sc.D.(1968) degrees in Mechanical
Engineering with control systems as his area of specialization.
He also attended Ripon College where he received the AB
degree (1963) in Mathematics and Physics.
Dr.
Levis is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers (IEEE) and past president of the IEEE Control
Systems Society; a Fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science (AAAS); an Associate Fellow of
the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA);
and a member of INCOSE and AFCEA. He has received twice
the Exceptional Civilian Service medal from the Air Force
(1994, 2001) for contributions as a member of the Air Force
Scientific Advisory Board and the Third Millennium medal
from IEEE.
Dr.
Levis has taught at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
(1968-1973), headed the Systems Research Department at Systems
Control, Inc. in Palo Alto, CA (1973-1979), was a senior
research scientist at the Laboratory for Information and
Decision Systems at MIT (1979-1990), and moved to George
Mason University in 1990 where he headed twice the Systems
Engineering department. For the last fifteen years, his
areas of research have been information architecture design
and evaluation, adaptive architectures for command and control,
and the development of decision support systems. He has
taught systems engineering and developed and taught the
AFCEA short courses on C4ISR architectures.
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