Dr. Nestor Rychtyckyj
rychtyckyj@ltu.edu
nrychtyc@ford.com

Nestor Rychtyckyj is a technical expert in Artificial Intelligence at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan in Advanced & Manufacturing Engineering Systems. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Rychtyckyj has been an adjunct faculty member at Lawrence Technological University since 2003; he has taught courses in Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Data Structures and Database Systems.

His research focuses on the application of knowledge-based systems for vehicle assembly process planning and scheduling. Currently his responsibilities include the development of automotive ontologies, intelligent manufacturing systems, controlled languages, machine translation and corporate terminology management.

Dr. Rychtyckyj has published over 30 papers in referred journals and conference proceedings. He is a member of AAAI, ACM and the IEEE Computer Society.