He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Entropy, the co-founder and President of a robotics company, Autonomous Exploration Inc., and a former NASA research scientist. He has 20 years of experience in designing Bayesian and maximum entropy-based machine learning algorithms for data analysis applied to the physical sciences. His interests in the foundations of inference and inquiry has led his theoretical investigations to focus on the foundations of physics from an information-based perspective. knuthlab.rit.albany.edu/