Hook Hua

Hook Huais a member of the High Capability Computing and Modeling Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is the Principle Investigator of the service-oriented work presented in this paper, which is used to study long-term and global-scale atmospheric trends. He is also currently involved on the design and development of Web Services-based distributed workflows of heterogeneous models for Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSE) to analyze instrument models. Hook was also the lead in the development of an ontology knowledge base and expert system with reasoning to represent the various processing and data aspects of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar processing. Hook has also been involved with Web Services and dynamic language enhancements for the Satellite Orbit Analysis Program (SOAP) tool. His other current work includes technology-portfolio assessment, human-robotic task planning & scheduling optimization, temporal resource scheduling, and analysis. He developed the software frameworks used for constrained optimization utilizing graph search, binary integer programming, and genetic algorithms. Hook received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he also received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics.