Brian J. Stankiewicz, Ph.D.

  • Experienced research scientist in both academia (10+ years) and industry (10+ years) specializing in developing new technology that bridges basic research and application in a variety of technical areas, including human vision, computer vision, machine learning natural language processing and others.

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3M

3M Corporate Research Labs: Principal Data Scientist

  • Jul 2017 – Present

    Accomplishments and Responsibilities

  • Technical lead for Materials Informatics in 3M Corporate Research Labs.
  • Agile-Scrum cross functional team (software, mechanical, material science, artificial intelligence). Creating technical and business roadmaps.
  • Accelerating research and development by creating and nurturing external relationships with vendors (Citrine) and universities (University of British Colombia, University of Chicago, Argonne National Labs).

3M Health Information Systems: Principal Data Scientist

  • Jul 2012 – Jul 2017 (5 Years)

Accomplishments and Responsibilities

  • Founded Data Science Lab in 3M Health Information Systems
  • Technical lead for 3M and Google-Verily Performance Matrix collaboration .
  • Identify and develop new opportunities for in converting “Data to Dollars” in the 3M healthcare business.
  • Develop methods and tools for working with Protected Health Information (PHI) data. Worked closely with internal 3M legal and external organizations. …

3M Corporate Research Labs: Senior Research Scientist

  • Jul 2007 – Jul 2012 (5 Years)

Accomplishments and Responsibilities

  • Founded the 3M Corporate Research Labs (CRL) Artificial Intelligent Lab.
  • Technical lead on Visual Attention Service. Create computer vision algorithms for predicting where visual attention will be allocated in an image.

University of Texas at Austin

  • Jun 2001 – Jun 2007 (6 years)

Assistant professor in human and computer vision.

  • Created a lab of 10 graduate students.
  • Developed program in VR. Second largest VR working lab in the nation at the time.
  • 10+ publications.
  • ~$1MM in research grants.

Patents & Patent Applications

  1. System, method and apparatus for providing navigational assistance BJ Stankiewicz, AR Cassandra US Patent 7,620,493

  2. Systems and methods for optimizing a scene Brian J Stankiewicz, Brian E Brooks, Brian L Linzie, Nathan J Anderson, Michael Kelly Canavan, Glenn E Casner, Timothy J Gardner, David K Misemer. US Patent 8,478,111

  3. Systems and methods for multi-perspective scene analysis Brian J Stankiewicz, Brian E Brooks, Brian L Linzie, Nathan J Anderson, Michael Kelly Canavan, Glenn E Casner, Timothy J Gardner, David K Misemer. US Patent 8,577,156

  4. System and method for concurrently conducting cause-and-effect experiments on content effectiveness and adjusting content distribution to optimize business objectives. Brian E Brooks, Brian J Stankiewicz, Jonathan B Arthur, Craig G Markell, Brian L Linzie. US Patent 8,458,103

  5. Systems and methods for note recognition. Gabriel A Biller, Kristopher W Clover, Masuma W Henry, Stephen M June, Brian L Linzie, Robert D Lorentz, David M Mahli, Richard J Moore, Cristin E Moran, Tasuku Nakayama, Scott D Pearson, Dennard J Powell, Olen Ronning, Guruprasad Somasundaram, Brian J Stankiewicz, Diane R Wolk. US Patent 9,070,036

  6. Systems and methods for note recognition. Gabriel A Biller, Kristopher W Clover, Masuma W Henry, Stephen M June, Brian L Linzie, Robert D Lorentz, David M Mahli, Richard J Moore, Cristin E Moran, Tasuku Nakayama, Scott D Pearson, Dennard J Powell, Olen Ronning, Guruprasad Somasundaram, Brian J Stankiewicz, Diane R Wolk. US Patent 9,378,426

  7. Systems and methods for evaluating robustness of saliency predictions of regions in a scene. Brian J Stankiewicz, Brian E Brooks, Brian L Linzie, Nathan J Anderson, Michael Kelly Canavan, Glenn E Casner, Timothy J Gardner, David K Misemer. US Patent 8,811,753

  8. Systems and methods for managing notes. Willem V Bastiaens, Gabriel A Biller, Kristopher W Clover, Brian R Hackerson, Masuma W Henry, Stephen M June, Brian L Linzie, Robert D Lorentz, David M Mahli, Richard J Moore, Cristin E Moran, Michael E O’brien, Scott D Pearson, Dennard J Powell, Olen Ronning, Guruprasad Somasundaram, Brian J Stankiewicz, Diane R Wolk. US Patent 9,563,696

  9. Systems and methods for improving visual attention models. BE Brooks, BJ Stankiewicz, BL Linzie. US Patent 10,515,163**

  10. Estimating and predicting tooth wear using intra-oral 3D scans Evan J Ribnick, Guruprasad Somasundaram, Brian J Stankiewicz, Aya Eid, Ravishankar Sivalingam, Shannon D Scott, Anthony J Sabelli, Robert D Lorentz. US Patent 9,737,257

  11. Obfuscating data using obfuscation table. BJ Stankiewicz, EC Lobner, RH Wolniewicz, WL Schofield. US Patent 10,503,928

  12. Systems and method for obfuscating data using dictionary. BJ Stankiewicz, EC Lobner, RH Wolniewicz, WL Schofield. US Patent App. 15/036,537

  13. Systems and methods for predicting hvac filter change. AR Fox, EC Lobner, TM Meyer, BJ Stankiewicz. US Patent App. 15/532,186

  14. Identification of codable sections in medical documents. Kavita A Ganesan, Brian J Stankiewicz, David E Yarowsky, Anna N Rafferty, Michael A Nossal, Anthony R Davis. US Patent App. 15/517,648

  15. Identification and analysis of copied and pasted passages in medical documents. BJ Stankiewicz, KS Peterson, GL Garrison. US Patent App. 15/303,334

  16. Activity Recognition Using Accelerometer Data. EC Lobner, JW Howard, RJ Moore, JF Schumacher, BJ Stankiewicz. US Patent App. 15/117,943

  17. Impairment detection. EC Lobner, JW Howard, JF Schumacher, BJ Stankiewicz, BL Weaver. US Patent App. 15/511,310

  18. Systems and methods for generating random numbers using physical variations present in material samples. Jennifer F Schumacher, Glenn E Casner, Yanina Shkel, Andrew P Bonifas, Anthony J Sabelli, Brian J Stankiewicz, John A Wheatley, Ravishankar Sivalingam, Robert W Shannon. US Patent 10,331,411

  19. Identification of low-efficacy patient population. BJ Stankiewicz, JF Schumacher, BE Brooks, NA Asendorf, KS Peterson US Patent App. 15/773,207

  20. Batch authentication of materials for automated anti counterfeiting. Anthony J Sabelli, Jennifer F Shumacher, Yanina Shkel, Brian J Stankiewicz, Glenn E Casner, John A Wheatley, Andrew P Bonifas, Ravishankar Sivalingam. US Patent App. 15/533,290

  21. Query optimizer for combined structured and unstructured data records. BJ Stankiewicz, NA Asendorf, JF Schumacher, KS Peterson. US Patent App. 16/092,483

  22. Medical protocol evaluation. BJ Stankiewicz, JF Schumacher, BE Brooks, NA Asendorf, KS Peterson, US Patent App. 15/773,233