Mr. Patrick Ludwig: Director, Applied Research & Development

Mr. Pat Ludwig is NSI Director of Applied Research and Development. He is providing core technical support to the Army’s Human Terrain System (HTS) as well as consultative services to the Army’s Topographic Engineering Center – ERDC-TEC. The HTS system is an evolutionary effort to bring social scientists directly into the military decision making process for deployed Army Brigades. Prior to joining forces with NSI, Mr. Ludwig was a Lead Scientist at the MITRE Corporation. His most recent responsibility there was the chief architect of the Human Terrain System prototype. Prior work at MITRE also included playing a key role in the initial development and continued operations of USSOCOM’s Special Operations Joint Interagency Collaboration Center (SOJICC) -- from 2001 to 2007. Here he was engaged in several data mining and geospatial fusion special projects of for various US Govt. entities. Mr. Ludwig's research interests are within the domain of geospatial data mining and other more traditional knowledge management and extraction technologies. His focus is upon the synthesis and development of human terrain understanding.

Mr. Ludwig has also been a Principal Investigator for an Army funded research program that investigated collaborative technologies for 3D and 4D geospatial visualization. This research assessed the use of inexpensive game consoles as high-performance/disposable 3D/4D geo-visualization platforms. His understanding of geospatial systems and rich media fusion within geospatial systems is very strong. He has also performed substantial research work within the ‘information hiding’ and ‘Internet deception’ domains. That is, steganography and steganography defeat strategies, as well as anonymizing techniques where he refined weaknesses within existing trusted algorithms.

Mr. Ludwig is a PhD Candidate in Computer Information Sciences at Nova Southeastern University. His MS is from the University of Phoenix and BS from the University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse. He is member of the UPE Academic Honor Society for the Computing Sciences, the ACM and IEEE.