The power of collaborative systems
The power of collaborative systems
We are justifiably proud of the Perceptronics Solutions professional staff, composed of highly experienced and regarded scientists, engineers and researchers, who have worked smoothly and successfully together for years. A truly small business, we operate with a virtually flat organizational structure. Our few corporate officers are also direct participants in our R&D projects, and there is quick and easy communication within the Company as well as between our customers and our technical people. We endeavor to use our capabilities to make a real and lasting contribution in our chosen area of work.
Gershon Welman, Ph.D., Vice-President and Principal Scientist
Marvin Cohen, Ph.D., Vice-President, Senior Scientist
Elan Freedy, Vice-President, Principal Software Engineer
James McDonough, Senior Researcher
Melanie LeGoullon, Ph.D. Senior Human Factors Scientist
Dr. Amos Freedy is a recognized expert in planning and managing large scale development and production programs involving a combination of engineering and behavioral disciplines, with special emphasis on AI and cognitively aided human-computer systems. Amos previously was president and chief operating officer of Perceptronics, Inc., a public corporation which he co-founded with Gershon Weltman. At Perceptronics, Inc., Amos served as a principal investigator on numerous AI-based decision modeling and aiding programs for defense agencies and commercial firms. His main role was management of projects through proof of concept and field implementation including software development and hardware system design and integration. In particular, Amos directed a multi-year program for DARPA and ONR establishing the pioneering principles and practice of computer-based group decision aiding. Amos has served as Chairman of the Man-Machine Committee and of the Decision Subcommittee for the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics professional society and has published numerous technical and strategic articles, papers, reports and book chapters. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering, a MS in Bio-Engineering and a PhD in Electronics and Man-Machine Systems from the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Dr. Gershon (Gersh) Weltman is an internationally respected expert in individual and collective simulation, with a strong emphasis on human factors and user interface design. Gersh’s professional experience is centered on his long-term executive and technical management of Perceptronics, Inc. His responsibilities as CEO included developing new business and directing the creative design, production and delivery of many innovative simulation and decision support systems. Prior to founding Perceptronics, Inc. with Amos Freedy, Gersh was a faculty member at the UCLA School of Engineering, where he taught courses in human factors and in humanities for engineering students and conducted research in biomedicine and on human performance underwater. Gersh was also a six-year member of the U.S. Army Science Board, a select group that advises the Army on science and technology matters, and recently served on the Defense Science Board Task Force on Training for Future Conflicts. He has published numerous scientific, technical and strategic papers, and has presented lectures and briefings at government, business and professional meetings. He holds a BS, MS and PhD in Man-Machine Systems from the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science.
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Dr. Marvin Cohen is an expert in decision analysis and support. Prior to joining Perceptronics Solutions, he was president and chief scientist of Cognitive Technologies, Inc., which he founded in 1990. Cognitive Technologies’ specialized in training and aiding critical thinking and decision making. Dr. Cohen’s recent work has focused on understanding and training critical thinking and leadership, and on designing decision aids that support critical thinking and decision making in time-constrained and uncertain environments. Other work involves development and testing of methods for cognitive task analysis, modeling real-time decision making in a variety of domains (based on data from experiments, interviews, and naturalistic observation), training and evaluating critical thinking performance, computer simulation of real-time decision making, formal inference systems, decision aids that adapt to users, and knowledge-based collaborative information management. Dr Cohen received his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Harvard University.
Elan Freedy heads Perceptronics Solutions’ software engineering and the Washington, D.C. facility. Elan has over 15 years of experience as a software developer and computer scientist, he has led the successful implementation of complex software systems on projects performed for both government and commercial customers. Elan's work has focused on management of the complete lifecycle in software development supporting both research and commercial product development as well as product management. Prior to Perceptronics, his most recent experience is as Director of Solutions for the Semiconductor, Telecom and Medical Equipment vertical markets at Enigma, Inc. In this role, he performed business process analysis to generate software requirement to develop solutions to streamline how techical support and engineering data is managed to support the complex equipment used in these industries. During the mid-1990s, Elan was involved with some of the pioneering development work of Voice over IP technology while serving as a Program Manager at VocalTec Communications. He participated in early efforts to productize this technology while it was still emerging. Elan's interests and areas of expertise include distributed systems, networking, AI, and machine learning. Elan holds a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from UCLA and his MS in Computer Science from George Washington University.
James (Jim) McDonough is an expert in military simulation and command and control systems, who retired with the rank of Major from the U.S. Marine Corps. As part of his duties he served as chief analyst and then project team leader for the Tactical Combat Operations System, directing military and contractor personnel to test concepts in simulation and to define and specify a major tactical command and control system. Following his Marine Corps career, Jim joined Perceptronics, Inc. as vice president and general manager of the Training and Simulation Division, where he distinguished himself as a leader and major technical participant in the development and fielding of the highly successful DARPA-sponsored SIMNET virtual simulation system. Jim left Perceptronics to become a founder, executive vice president and chief operating officer of E Team, Inc., where he was responsible for development of the E Team Internet-based software product that supports all aspects of emergency and event management. E Team applications have included coordination of all public safety activities for the 2002 Olympics and the interagency response to and recovery from the 9-11 terror attack on the World Trade Center. The E Team system distinguished itself in all these applications and received special attention from Secretary of Defense Cheney and other high-level DOD officials. Jim received his BS from Yale and MBA from the University of Hawaii.
Dr. Melanie LeGoullon is a Human Factors researcher at Perceptronics Solutions’ Washington, D.C. office. She has extensive experience conducting human factors and cognitive research within the aviation industry. Melanie's expertise is centered on human error in automated systems; she has collaborated with several airlines to improve pilot performance in highly automated cockpits, and is herself a private pilot. Dr. LeGoullon holds a B.A. in Biology from Cornell University and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from George Mason University. While pursuing her Ph.D., Melanie was also a fellow in NASA's prestigious Graduate Student Researchers Program.
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