Curriculum Vitae

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Education		Ph.D. 1997 (Logic and Computation) Carnegie Mellon University, Pittburgh, PA, USA, Department of Philosophy Thesis title: "Hard Choices in Scientific Inquiry". Supervisor: Kevin Kelly.
		M.S. 1994 (Logic and Computation) Carnegie Mellon University, Pittburgh, PA, USA, Department of Philosphy Thesis title: "The Computable Testability of Uncomputable Theories"
		B.Sc. 1992 (Cognitive Science) with high distinction University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
		Abitur (grade 13, final grade average 1.1, best possible is 1.0) 1988 Hamburg, Germany.
University Appointments		Associate Director. 2007-2009, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University. Associate Professor. September 2006-current. School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University. Associate Professor. August 2004–September 2006. Assistant Professor July 2001-August 2004. Department of Philosophy and School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University. Assistant Professor. (Tenure-Track) July 1997-June 2001. Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta. Adjunct Professor. Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta. October 1998-present.
Honors and Awards		Distinguished Junior Scholar in Residence, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies; July 1999, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
		Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society; inducted 1996.
		Werner von Siemens Scholarship; 1992-94 sponsored by Siemens AG (covered tuition and living expenses for 2 years during Master's Degree).
		Daniel Berlin Scholarship; awarded 1991 (an award for Cognitive Science Specialists at the University of Toronto).
		Undergraduate Research Award; awarded 1991 (by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada).
		University College Scholarship; awarded 1988 and 1989 (by University College, University of Toronto).
Professional Activities		Program Committee Member: ICML 06 (Senior), ICML (04,06-Senior Comm, 08), UAI (02,04), FLAIRS (06), AAI (08), IJCAI 09.
		Action Editor for Computational Intelligence
		Associate Editor for Philosophy in Review (Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Decision Theory), 1998-2001.
		Referee for Algorithms, J. of AI Research, J. of Machine Learning Research, Computational Intelligence, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI, Erkenntnis, Synthese, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Journal of Symbolic Logic, Mathematical Social Sciences, Dialogue, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Canadian Philosophical Association, Philosophy of Science, Logic and Computation.
		Member of Philosophy of Science Association, Canadian Philosophical Association.
		Organizer of 2000 Meeting of the Western Canadian Philosophical Association (with Jeff Pelletier)
Research Experience		Research Assistant for Office of Naval Research Project (August 1995 - May 1996) Project Title: "Coordination and Cooperation among Tactical Picture Agents". ONR contract N00014-95-1-1161. Principal Investigator: C. Bicchieri, Carnegie Mellon University.
		Research Intern with Siemens Corporate Research (Summer 1994) Internship with the Learning Systems Department. Princeton, New Jersey.
		Research Assistant in Computational Linguistics (Summer 1991) Supervisor: Graeme Hirst, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. Funded by an Undergraduate Research Award from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
Languages	English and German with native competence. Reading knowledge of French.
Citizenship	Canadian and German.
Interests

Research Funding

Abbreviations: NSERC = Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Canada, SSHRC = Social Science and Humanities Research Council Canada, MITACS: Mathematics, Information Technology and Complex Systems.

Type	Role	Period	Project Title	Funding Agency	Total Amount	Notes
Research Grant	PI	2008 - 2013	Machine learning for entity-relationship databases	NSERC	$85,000
Industrial Internship	PI	2008 - 2009	Data Mining for Distributed Database with Encrypted Information	MITACS	$15,000	Student: Z.Lu with Bits Republic Technologies
Research Grant	PI	2004-2007	The Epistemology of Rational Choice and Its Applications	SSHRC	$79,000
Research Grant	PI	2003 - 2007	A Learning-Theoretic Approach to Discovering Causal Models from Large Datasets	NSERC	$72,000
Research Grant	PI	2001-2003	The Epistemology of Rational Choice in Social Interactions	President’s Research Grant	$10,000
Research Grant	PI	1999 - 2003	Automated Inference of Conservation Principles in Particle Physics	NSERC	$61,200
Research Grant	PI	1999 - 2002	The Epistemology of Rational Choice in Social Interactions	SSHRC	$40,420
Conference Grant	Organizer	2000	WCPA meeting	SSHRC	$8,000

Presentations and Talks: Summary

Invited Plenary Talks.

Causal Modelling for Relational Data. O. Schulte (2010). Center for Formal Epistemology, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
How Particle Physics Cut Nature At Its Joints, O. Schulte (2007). 13th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and the Philosophy of Science, Beijing, China.
Conditionals, Contractions and the K*3 Axiom. O. Schulte (2005). Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET).

Conference Presentations (Total: 28, 1994-2010)

Invited Lectures (Total: 24, 1998-2008)

Local Seminars (Total: 18, 2000-2010)

In Summary: 70+ presentations, lectures, and seminars given at various conferences and institutions. These includes the following, sorted by location.

· USA: Stanford University; Carnegie Mellon University; California Institute of Technology; University of Michigan Ann Arbor; University of California at San Diego; University of Washington.

· Canada: Simon Fraser University, University of Alberta, University of British Columbia, University of Western Ontario, University of Victoria, University of Lethbridge.

· Europe: University of Maastricht, Netherlands; Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France; University of Konstanz, Germany, University of Hamburg, Germany.

· Australasia: University of Tsukuba, Japan; Japanese Advanced Institute for Science and Technology; Australian National University; Australian National Logic Summer School.