David Schoenwald
Principal Member of Technical Staff
Contact Information:
daschoe@sandia.govP. O. Box 5800
Albuquerque, NM 87185-0370
(505) 284-6285
(505) 284-0154 fax
Experience
Dave has BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Iowa, University of Illinois, and the Ohio State University, respectively. Dave's primary training has been in the field of control systems with emphasis on decentralized control of large-scale systems and nonlinear control theory. Prior to joining Sandia in 1999, Dave spent 7 years in the Instrumentation & Controls Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, working on applying control systems research to manufacturing systems for such industries as textiles, semiconductors, electric utilities, and ceramics.
As a Sandia Technical Staff Member from 1999 to the present, Dave has been involved in two principal yet related activities. One is decentralized control of engineered collectives such as robotic swarms. The other is agent-based modeling of economic and logistic systems. Both involve the mathematical modeling and optimization of behavior in large-scale systems. The collectives work involves control system design to guarantee stability of the movement of large numbers of autonomous unmanned ground-based vehicles in concert with each other. This work was largely done while working for the Intelligent Systems & Robotics Center and resulted in several conference and journal papers. Currently, Dave focuses most of his efforts on agent-based modeling and simulation in his current department affiliation, the Exploratory Simulation Technologies Department. Dave contributed to the development of agent-based modeling architectures at Sandia including the codes Aspen and N-ABLE. He currently uses these architectures to model the logistics of military weapons systems and is interested in the optimization of features of these logistics systems.
His interests in agent-based modeling include economics, logistics, health care networks, theory of modeling and optimization of networks using agents, and unmanned autonomous sensor/vehicle networks. Dave also has interests in data fusion, nuclear power plants, and commodity flow networks. Dave is actively involved in the IEEE Control Systems Society serving on the Board of Governors, the Conference Editorial Board, and as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.
Updated: 7/5/2007