Ladislau Boloni
Professor
- Office: L3 Harris Engineering Center Room 316
- Email: ladislau.boloni@ucf.edu
- Phone: 407-823-2320
BIOGRAPHY
Ladislau Bölöni is a professor of computer science at the University of Central Florida. His research interests include robotics, artificial intelligence, autonomous agents, cognitive architectures, distributed computing and wireless networking.
He earned a doctorate in computer science from Purdue University in 2000. Prior to joining UCF, Bölöni held positions in both academia and industry, including roles as a visiting researcher at institutions in Europe and as an infrastructure architect in the private sector.
Bölöni has served as associate editor for the International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing and has participated in review panels for agencies such as the National Science Foundation, NASA, the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM and AAAI.
His honors include the Kurzweil Best Artificial General Intelligence Idea Prize, a NASA Software Award and UCF’s Research Incentive Award.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in Computer Science – Purdue University
RESEARCH
- Robotics and AI
- Deep learning from demonstration
- Vision-based end-to-end learning
- Human-robot teaming
- Meta learning
- Autonomous agents
- Modeling of human behavior in social and cultural environments
- Mutable agents
- Cognitive architectures
- Narrative reasoning
- Distributed and grid computing
- Task scheduling and resource allocation
- Wireless networking
- Sensor networks with mobile sinks and nodes
- Value of information-based approache
PUBLICATIONS
- Bölöni, L., & Marinescu, D. C. (2002). Robust scheduling of metaprograms. Journal of Scheduling, 5(5), 395-412.
- Boukerche, A., Turgut, B., Aydin, N., Ahmad, M. Z., Bölöni, L., & Turgut, D. (2011). Routing protocols in ad hoc networks: A survey. Computer Networks, 55(13), 3032-3080.
- Bölöni, L., & Turgut, D. (2008). Should I send now or send later? A decision-theoretic approach to transmission scheduling in sensor networks with mobile sinks. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 8(3), 385-403.
- Luotsinen, L. J., & Bölöni, L. (2008, May). Role-based teamwork activity recognition in observations of embodied agent actions. In Proc. of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Volume 2 (pp. 567-574).
- Turgut, D. and L. Bölöni. IVE: improving the value of information in energy-constrained intruder tracking sensor networks. In IEEE Int. Conf. on Comunications (ICC-2013), pp. 6360–6364, 2013
AWARDS
- Kurzweil Best Artificial General Intelligence Idea Prize 2014
- Best Paper Award ICC 2013
- NASA Software Award 2005
- UCF Research Incentive Award (RIA) 2019