Bio

I graduated from beautiful Xiamen University with a B.E. in Architecture in 1993, and worked as an architect in Shantou, a medium city but also an important commercial port in the eastern coastal area of China.

In 1998, I enrolled in the M.S. program in Architecture (and later on enrolled in the M.S. program in Computer Science as well) at Calpoly, San Luis Obispo, California. At the same time, I worked at Collaborative Agent Design Research Center (CADRC) and CDM Technologies, serving as an AI researcher, multi-agent system designer and developer.

Under the guidance of Dr. Jens G. Pohl, one of my research works, An Experimental Adaptive Expert System in Architecture Programming, was awarded the George Agron Research Scholarship and published at InterSymp-2000' Baden-Baden, Germany. Another computer system that I developed, A Context-Based Free Text Interpreter (CFTI), evolved as my M.S. thesis in Computer Science, and my advisor was Dr. Franz J. Kurfess.

In 2002 Fall, I came to Stanford University for studying a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering. I worked under the direction of Professor Kincho H. Law, and received my PhD degree in June 2006. During my years at Stanford, I was a member of the Engineering Informatics Group and also a research assistant of the Center for Integrated Facility Engineering.

Currently I am working for CDM Tech., San Luis Obispo, California, researching AI and agent-based systems.

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Research Interests

• Adaptive expert system, more...

• Machine learning in a collaborative environment with human users, more...

• Natural language processing and information retrieval from unstructured documents more...

• Memory structure and collective intelligent behavior, more...

• Self and identity theory, consciousness, reality, more...

• Virtual design and construction, more...

• Navigation in virtual environment, robotic motion planning and simulation, more...

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Research Projects

• Wheelchair-Accessible Design Assistant.  Wheelchair-Accessible Design Assistant (WADA) is a computer-based tool that integrates Architectural Desktop (ADT) and motion planning techniques in Computer Science for assessing wheelchair accessibility of architectural spaces.

• Ant Colony. A computation model that studies "how the heterogeneous micro-world of individual behaviors generates the global macroscopic regularities of the society".

• Motion Planning for Tower Crane. An application of motion planning technology in building construction.

• PhD project: Computational Modeling of Crowd Behaviors for Emergency Egress.

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Experience

• Sept. 2002 - present:  Research Assistant, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, CA, USA.

• Sept. 1999 - Aug. 2002:  Research Assistant and Software Developer, CADRC & CDM Technologies, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA.

• Sept. 1993 - July. 1997:  Architect, Shantou Construction International Co., P. R. China.

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• X. Pan. C.S. Han, K.H. Law, and JC. Latombe. "A Computational Framework to Simulate Human and Social Behaviors during Emergency Evacuations," Blume Center News, The John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center, Stanford University, Issue No. 44, Spring 2006.

• X. Pan. "Computational Modeling of Human and Social Behaviors for Emergency Egress Analysis," PhD Thesis, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 2006.

• X. Pan, C. S. Han, K. Dauber and K. H. Law. "Human and Social Behavior in Computational Modeling and Analysis of Egress," Building Future Council Doctoral Program, Las Vegas, March 16 - 17, 2005

• X. Pan, C. S. Han, K. Dauber and K. H. Law. "A Multi-agent Based Framework for Simulating Human and Social Behaviors during Emergency Evacuations," Social Intelligence Design, Stanford University, Stanford, USA, March 24-26, 2005.

• X. Pan, C. S. Han, and K. H. Law. "A Multi-agent Based Simulation Framework for the Study of Human and Social Behavior in Egress Analysis," International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, Cancun, Mexico, July 12-15, 2005.

• X. Pan, C. S. Han, and K. H. Law. "Using Motion-Planning to Determine the Existence of an Accessible Route in a CAD Environment," Assistive Technology, 2005.

• C. Cheng, X. Pan, and F. Kurfess. "Ontology-based Semantic Classification of Unstructured Documents,"  1st International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, Hamburg, Germany,  September 15-18, 2003.

• X. Pan and H. Assal. "Providing context for Free Text Interpretation," NLP-KE'03, Beijing, China, October 26-29, 2003.

• C. Cheng and X. Pan. "Using perception in managing unstructured documents," ACM Crossroad 10(2): 5-5, August 2004, ACM Press, New York.

• X. Pan. "A Context-Based Free Text Interpreter," M.S. thesis in Computer Science, Calpoly, San Luis Obispo, California, U.S.A. 2002.

• X. Pan. "An Experimental Adaptive Expert System," InterSymp-2000' Baden-Baden, Germany, July 31 - August 4, 2000.

• X. Pan. "Implementation of an Adaptive Rule-Based, Object-Oriented Expert System in Architectural Programming: An Experiment in Human-Computer Collaboration", M.S. thesis in Architecture, Calpoly, San Luis Obispo, California, U.S.A. 1999.

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• Art and Engineering Through the Lens of Anthropology.

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