Steven J. Henderson

Major, U.S. Army

Department of Systems Engineering

West Point, N.Y.

steven.henderson [at-sym] us [dot-sym] army [dot-sym] mil

(845) 325-9255 (cell)

 

CURRENT POSITION

 

   Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Engineering, West Point

 

EDUCATION

 

   PhD Candidate, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University

 

   Master of Science, Systems Engineering, University of Arizona,  Tucson, AZ;  May 2003. Qualified PhD Candidate (August 2003).

 

   Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY;  June 1994

 

RELATED EXPERIENCE

 

 

   Aide de Camp, Multinational Force-Iraq Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Effects.  United States Embassy, Baghdad, Iraq ;  June-2005-May 2006

 

Personal advisor/assistant to the Multinational Force-Iraq Deputy Chief of Staff. Assist in integration of Coalition activities with those of the US State Department, Iraqi Government, United Nations, and USAID.  Provide advice and technical expertise in the design and employment of information systems used to plan and assess strategic-level effects.

 

   Assistant Professor/Research Analyst, United States Military Academy, Systems Engineering Department; July 2003-June 2005

 

   NASA Faculty Fellow, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, June-August 2004

 

 

   Attack Company Commander, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, KY; July 1999-July 2001

 

Responsible for training, operations, and employment of tactical unit comprised of 8 AH64 helicopters and 27 personnel. 

Pilot in Command – AH64 Attack Helicopter.

Attack Aviation Officer, 1st Armored Division, Germany/Bosnia-Herzegovina; December 1995-November 1998

 

Scout Platoon Leader (1 yr)

 

Company Executive Officer (1 yr)

 

Designed and implemented information systems while coordinating training and drafting operational plans for a tactical unit comprised of 300 people and 24 aircraft.  Responsible for training, operations, and employment of Attack Helicopter Scout Platoon.

 

Pilot in Command – AH64 Attack Helicopter.

 

 

COURSES TAUGHT

 

  Introduction to Systems Engineering; Fall 2003, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York

 

  Computer Aided Systems Engineering; Spring 2004, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York

 

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

 

Refereed Journal Articles:

 

Henderson, S. J. and Feiner, S.  “Opportunistic Tangible User Interfaces for Augmented Reality,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Accepted for publication).

 

Driscoll, P, and Henderson, S.  “Identifying Unknown Force Operational States,”  Military Operations Research Journal,  11(27): 2006. Winner: Best Paper Award

 

Bahill, A. T. and Henderson, S. “Requirements development, verification and validation exhibited in famous failures,”  Systems Engineering, 8(1): January 2005.

 

Henderson, S.  Information Fusion in Battlefield Networks.  M.S. Thesis, University of Arizona, May 2003.  Also available from University Microfiche, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan.

 

Articles in Refereed Conference Proceedings:

 

Henderson, S. J. and Feiner, S.  “Evaluating the Benefits of Augmented Reality for Task Localization in Maintenance of an Armored Personnel Carrier Turret,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR '09), October 2009, pp. 135-144. Winner: Best Paper Award

 

Henderson, S. J. and Feiner, S. "Opportunistic controls: leveraging natural affordances as tangible user interfaces for augmented reality," In Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST' 08) Bordeaux, France, October 27 - 29, 2008.   Winner: Best Paper Award

 

Hamilton, G. and Henderson, S.  “Human Motion Tracking at Marshall Space Flight Center,”  Proceedings of the Huntsville Simulation Conference, October 2004.

 

 Book Chapters

 

Henderson, S. and Feiner, S., "'Augmented and Mixed Reality for Training'” in The PSI Handbook of Virtual Environments for Training and Education, Ed. Dylan Schmorrow, Joseph Cohn, and Denise Nicholson", Praeger Security International, Westport, CT, May 2008.

 

Non-Refereed Publications:

 

Henderson, S.  “Attack [Send]!: Leveraging Computer Capabilities to Address Misuse at Company and Battalion Levels,”  Program Manager Magazine: July/August 1998.

 

Non-Refereed Conference Presentations:

 

R. Spainhour, S. Henderson, C. Banks, and M. McGinnis  “Best Practices for Developing Lessons Learned" , 75th Military Operations Research Symposium, June 2007.

 

D. Henderson and S. Henderson  “Modeling Linkages in Social Networks" , 74th Military Operations Research Symposium, June 2006.

 

P. Driscoll and S. Henderson  “Identifying Unknown Force Operational States,”  CORS-INFORMS, May 2004.

S. Henderson   “Overview of webCOIN”  Presented in COIN-OR Software Tools for Optimization Tutorial, CORS-INFORMS, May 2004.

P. Driscoll and S. Henderson  “Information Fusion in Battlefield Networks,”  INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2003.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

 

Funded Research Activities

 

Conditions Based Maintenance for Army Aviation,  Army Material Command.  LTC Michael Kwinn – Senior Investigator.  MAJ Steve Henderson – Principal Analyst.   August 2004-June 2005.  Designed and implemented data warehouse which combines information from environmental, usage, and manufacturer databases to assist in prognostic and diagnostic maintenance activities for Army aircraft.

 

Air Defense Simulation Architecture for OASIS,  Operational Test Command.  LTC Michael Kwinn – Senior Investigator.  MAJ Steve Henderson – Principal Analyst.   August 2004-June 2005.  Designed a DoD Architectural Framework (DODAF) compliant simulation architecture for future Air Defense Simulations.

 

Information Logic & Impact of Incomplete Information, Department of Defense Office of Force Transformation.  Dr. Patrick Driscoll – Senior Investigator.  MAJ Steve Henderson – Assistant Investigator.  December 2003-June 2005.  Explored using information fusion meta-model (continuation of M.S. Thesis) for modeling issues of incomplete information and information advantage. 

 

Other

 

2004 NASA Faculty Fellow, Marshall Space Flight Center.  Conducted systems engineering study into optimal configuration and use of human motion tracking system.  Developed custom software solution to automate use of human motion tracking system.

 

M.S. Research

 

Developed meta-model for fusing information from low-level battlefield sensors into meaningful representation of enemy state

Designed three implementations of meta model using the following:  Bayesian Belief Networks, Fuzzy Logic, and Probabilistic Modal Logic

Designed and coded a discrete event simulation to validate meta-model’s ability to predict enemy state based on low level enemy activity

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

 

PHP development                                              IBM COIN-OR Open Source Solver

Java Server Pages development                       Java

Active Server Pages development                     C++

PHP/mySQL integration                                     HTML

ASP/SQL 7.0+ integration                                  C#

Enterprise Java Beans                                       Visual Basic


 

HONORS/AFFILIATIONS

 

Military Operations Research Journal Award, Military Operations Research Society, 2005-2006

 

Phi Kappa Phi, United States Military Academy Chapter, 1992

 

Ulysses S. Grant Award Winner (Top Computer Science Graduate), 1994

 

Distinguished Cadet (top 5%), United States Military Academy, 1994

 

Honor Graduate, U.S. Army Rotary Wing Flight School, 1995

 

Distinguished Honor Graduate, Aviation Captains Career Course, 1999

 

Distinguished Faculty Fellow, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, 2004

 

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

 

IEEE