User:Teja9118/sandbox/Dr. Sharad Sharma

'Dr. Sharad Sharma Dr. Sharad Sharma is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Bowie State University and Director of the Virtual Reality Laboratory at the Bowie State University. He is an senior member of IEEE. He specializes in investigating modeling strategies to simulate human egress behavior during emergency evacuation. Dr. Sharma’s proposed human behavior system integrates both artificial intelligence and fuzzy logic parameters. Fuzzy logic is used in refining human emotional behavior by including fuzzy behavioral characteristics such as stress, panic, smoke and anger. He has proposed a research tool AvatarSim that is developed in Java framework and can be displayed on a web browser. The model is extended to simulate battlefield scenarios and airplane evacuation scenarios. He has also combined learning and adaptive behavior by integrating Genetic Algorithm (GA) with Neural Networks (NN) to explore how intelligent agents can look for exits during an evacuation.

Education and academic career (Biography) Sharad Sharma has received Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI in 2006. His dissertation title was “Modeling and Simulation of Multi-Agent Systems for Emergency Scenarios” and it focused on Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence research areas. He received his M.S. degree from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI in 2003 and B. Arch from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India in 1999. Sharad Sharma attended school at St Gabriel's Academy, Roorkee in Uttarakhand, India. In 2007, Sharma began working as an Assistant professor of Computer Science at Bowie State University, where he still works.

He was the Program Chair, for the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE 2017) in San Diego, CA, USA on October 2-4, 2017 and the Program Chair for the 27th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE 2018), in New Orleans on October 8-10, 2018, and Program Chair for the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE 2019) in San Diego, CA, USA on September 30 - October 2, 2019. Awards Won •	USM (University System of Maryland) Board of Regents' Faculty Award" for Excellence in Research and Scholarship, April 2018. •	TMCF-ARL Summer Faculty Research Fellowship selected by ARL research directors to collaborate for 8 weeks of summer at Aberdeen, MD in 2016. •	Won Outstanding Researcher Award for the year 2013 at Bowie State University. Awarded 30 April, 2013. •	Won Outstanding Faculty Award for the year 2012 in College of Arts and Science at Bowie State University. Awarded 27 April, 2012 •	Won Outstanding Researcher Award for the year 2011 in College of Arts and Science at Bowie State University. Awarded 8 April, 2011 •	Won Outstanding Publication Award for the year 2010 in College of Arts and Science at Bowie State University. Awarded 30 April, 2010 •	Won Outstanding Young Faculty Award for the year 2009 in College of Arts and Science at Bowie State University. Awarded 17 April, 2009 •	University VIP Grants Award for hard work and dedication, submitting the most grant proposals for the year 2008- 2009 academic year at Bowie State University. •	Won "Outstanding Graduate/Professional Student Leadership Award" for the year 2005-2006 at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.

Research Sharma's research pertains to the applications of Software Engineering, Virtual Reality and visualization. His research focus is on modeling and simulation of multi-agent systems (MAS) and multi-user virtual reality (MUVR) environments for emergency response and decision making strategies. He specializes in investigating modeling strategies to simulate human egress behavior during emergency evacuation. His research focuses also on using virtual reality and augmented reality as tool for learning, training, and education. The current projects in the Virtual Reality Laboratory focus on emergency response strategies and evacuation drills for Multi‐User Virtual Reality (MUVR) evacuation (Examples: subway evacuation, airplane evacuation, bus evacuation, VR city evacuation, and university campus evacuation) environments. The VR lab also explores projects on Game-Theme based Instructional (GTI) modules (programing concepts), CVE (patient care, disaster response) augmented reality (way finding and navigation), mobile devices (Android app for emergency response and campus safety), multi-agent system, and online virtual classroom.