CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Details:

Ruth Jennifer Schulz

School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

The University of Queensland

St. Lucia Q 4072

Australia

ruth@itee.uq.edu.au

http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~ruth

+ 61 7 3365 9765

15 May 1980

Career Development:

July 2008 – present

Associate Lecturer with the University of Queensland

Lecturing COMP3702/7702 Artificial Intelligence; Research with robots and language

 

February 2005 – December 2005

Robotics Tutor with the University of Queensland

Tutoring introductory robotics to school classes (year 5 to year 12); Assisting with the organisation of a robotics competition

 

February 2004 – February 2005

Design Engineer with EDMI Limited

Investigating the usability of metering software; Research and development of a wireless metering device

 

December 2000 – January 2004

Research Assistant with the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Queensland

Assisting Associate Professor Janet Wiles with cognitive science projects

 

November 2002 – February 2003

Practical work experience with Banverket (Swedish National Rail Administration) in Luleå, Sweden

Assisting Ulf Wennberg (Manager Electrotechnics) and Fernando Collado (Electrical Engineer) with electrical engineering projects during the 12 weeks of work experience

 

August 1999 – September 2000

Pizza Hut driver

Customer service, handling money

100% CHAMPS check (random customer service check), November 1999

Award for Best Staff Member of the Month for the Area, December 1999

 

May 1999 – August 1999

Newspaper deliverer, Southern Star

Education and Training:

Postgraduate Degree:

February 2005 – November 2008

The University of Queensland

Completed Doctor of Philosophy in the field of Computer Science 27 November 2008

Topic: Spatial Language for Mobile Robots: The Formation and Generative Grounding of Toponyms

Bachelor Degree:

1999 – 2003

The University of Queensland

Completed Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) with Honours Class I and Bachelor of Science (Computer Science)  8 December 2003

Thesis Topic: Interface for an Automated Cocktail Maker

August 2001 – May 2002

Luleå University of Technology

Studied abroad in Sweden on an exchange program from the University of Queensland

Secondary Education:

1998

Exchange year at Katedralskolan, Trondheim, Norway

1993 - 1997

Matriculated from Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School with an overall position of 1

Publications:

Schulz, R., Glover, A., Milford, M., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (Accepted) Lingodroids: Studies in Spatial Cognition and Language, ICRA 2011, The International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Shanghai, China, May 2011

G. Wyeth, M. Milford, R. Schulz, and J. Wiles, (In Press) The RatSLAM project: robot spatial navigation, In Neuromorphic and Brain-Based Robotics.

Schulz, R., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (In Press) Are we there yet? Grounding temporal concepts in shared journeys, IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development

Schulz, R., Glover, A., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (2010). Robots, communication, and language: An overview of the Lingodroid Project, in G. Wyeth and B. Upcroft (Eds), Proceedings of the 2010 Australasian Conference on Robotics & Automation, Brisbane, Australia, 2010.

Glover, A., Schulz, R., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (2010). Grounding action in visuo-haptic space using experience networks, in G. Wyeth and B. Upcroft (Eds), Proceedings of the 2010 Australasian Conference on Robotics & Automation, Brisbane, Australia, 2010.

Schulz, R., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (2010), Language change across generations for robots using cognitive maps. In H. Fellermann, M. Dörr, M. M. Hanczyc, L. L. Laursen, S. Maurer, D. Merkle, P.-A. Monnard, K. Stoy and S. Rasmussen (Eds.), Artificial Life XII: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems. (pp. 581-588). Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

Schulz, R., Prasser, D., Stockwell, P., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (2008). The formation, generative power, and evolution of toponyms: Grounding a spatial vocabulary in a cognitive map. In A. D. M. Smith, K. Smith & R. Ferrer i Cancho (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference (EVOLANG7) (pp. 267-274). Singapore: World Scientific Press.

Milford, M., Schulz, R., Prasser, D., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (2007). Learning spatial concepts from RatSLAM representations. Robotics and Autonomous Systems - From Sensors to Human Spatial Concepts, 55(5), 403-410.

Schulz, R., Milford, M. J., Prasser, D., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (2006). Learning spatial concepts from RatSLAM representations. Paper presented at "From sensors to human spatial concepts" at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing, China.

Schulz, R., Stockwell, P., Wakabayashi, M., & Wiles, J. (2006). Towards a spatial language for mobile robots. In A. Cangelosi, A. D. M. Smith & K. Smith (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language. Singapore: World Scientific Press.

Schulz, R., Stockwell, P., Wakabayashi, M., & Wiles, J. (2006). Generalization in languages evolved for mobile robots. In L. M. Rocha, L. S. Yaeger, M. A. Bedau, D. Floreano, R. L. Goldstone & A. Vespignani (Eds.), ALIFE X: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. (pp. 486-492). Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

Wiles, J., Schulz, R., Bolland, S., Tonkes, B., & Hallinan, J. (2001). Selection procedures for module discovery: Exploring evolutionary algorithms for cognitive science. In J. D. Moore & K. Stenning (Eds), Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2001). (pp. 1124-1129). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Wiles, J., Schulz, R., Hallinan, J., Bolland, S. & Tonkes, B. (2001). Probing the persistent question marks. In L. Spector, E. Goodman, A. Wu, W. B. Langdon, H.-M. Voigt, M. Gen, S. Sen, M. Dorigo, S. Pezeshk, M. Garzon & E. Burke (Eds), Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2001). (pp. 710-717). San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

Current Research Interests:

• The evolution of language
• Spatial language
• Agent-based models of language
• Autonomous robots and agents

Awards and Achievements:

Academic

• Australian Postgraduate Award 2006-2008
• COSNet Overseas Travel Grant to attend Evolang, March 2008
• Valedictorian for the Faculty of Engineering, Physical Sciences and Architecture, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, 2003
• Dean’s Commendation for High Achievement, 2^nd Semester 1999, 1^st Semester 2000, 2^nd Semester 2000, 1^st Semester 2001, 2^nd Semester 2002, 2^nd Semester 2003
• Proxime Accessit to the Dux of the school, 1997
• Prize for Mathematics C, 1997
• Prize for Information Processing and Technology, 1997
• General Merit Prize 1993, 1996

Leadership

• President of Quokkas, the Orienteering club at the University of Queensland, 2000
• Prize for Leadership in Outdoor Education, 1997
• Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme – Gold (97), Silver (96), Bronze (95)
• House Choir Captain, 1997
• House Senior for Grade 8, 1997

Representative

• Member Bai Rui Taekwon-do Demonstration Team 2005 - present
• Member Australian ITF Taekwon-do Team 2007
• Member Australian Junior Orienteering Team 2000
• Member Queensland Schools Orienteering Team, 1994-7
• Australian Schools Orienteering Champion, 1997
• Member Australian Orienteering team, 1995
• Member school swimming (1993-7), cross-country (1994-7), netball (1993-6) teams

Community Activities and Volunteer Work:

• Editor of Bai Rui Taekwon-do Newsletter 2008 - present
• Volunteer for Robocup Junior National Competition 2003 – 2005
• Organised Orienteering Events, 1999 – 2003.  Responsible for all aspects of organisation of the event – planning courses, handling money, assisting newcomers
• Organised Junior Squad Cafe at orienteering events, 1995-97, 99.  Responsible for organising and running the cafe – preparing food, handling money, dealing with customers
• Leader for South Troendelag Red Cross Childrens Camp (Norway), June 1998.  Helping with planning, activities, mealtimes, caring for the children (6-11 yrs)

Business Highlights:

• Team member of finalist team in the University of Queensland’s Business Enterprize competition 2003
• Team member of Moot Corp business competition 2003

Languages:

• English - native
• Norwegian - fluent

Extracurricular Activities and Interests:

• Taekwon-do
• Training with Bai Rui Taekwon-do since 2004 and currently a 2nd Degree Black Belt, Instructor since 2009, Assistant Instructor 2007-2008
• Sewing
• Running
• Reading
• Adventure Races
• Triathlons
• Swimming
• Rock climbing
• Orienteering