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I have spent my entire career creating and validating programs, following technical leads to the creation of new technology, and envisioning the next big thing. I am best when the goal is defined but the means of achieving the goal is not. I will fill in the blanks, develop the technology or process, and solve the problem.

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I have spent my entire career creating and validating programs, following technical leads to the creation of new technology, and envisioning the next big thing. I am best when the goal is defined but the means of achieving the goal is not. I will fill in the blanks, develop the technology or process, and solve the problem.

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Present	Director of Student Inquiry & Research, Illinois Math and Science Academy
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Swarm engineering, evolutionary computation, energy conversion, product development and marketing

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1995 - 2000	PhD, Computation and Neural Systems (spec. Swarm Engineering), California Institute of Technology
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1990 - 1995	Bachelor's of Science, Physics, California Institute of Technology
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Books (1)

The Unexpected Journey and the Laboratory it Led Me To (Sanza Kazadi) (2013)

This book describes the educational program of the Jisan Research Institute, the only precollege teaching laboratory in the US. It's a remarkably conversational book which takes the reader through the unexpected beginning of the lab ...

Dissertation (1)

Swarm Engineering (S. Kazadi) Doctoral Dissertations (2000)

Swarm engineering is the natural evolution of the use of swarm-based techniques in the accomplishment of high level tasks using a number of simple robots. In this approach, one seeks not to generate a class ...

Patents (5)

US Patent 9,702,573: Nested heat transfer system (Sanza Kazadi) (2017)

A novel nested heat transfer system comprises a plurality of chained enhanced entrochemical cells with nested structures. Each enhanced entrochemical cell includes a first chamber containing desiccant, or a higher concentration solution, and a second ...

US Patent 9,702,633: Entrochemical energy transfer system and a process for obtaining work from environmental thermal energy (Sanza Kazadi) (2017)

An entrochemical energy transfer system and a related process for obtaining work from environmental thermal energy are disclosed. In one example, a plurality of linked entrochemical cells with nested chambers provides an aggregate thermal gradient ...

US Patent 8,338,976: Magnetically-levitated wind turbine (Sanza Kazadi) (2012)

A novel wind turbine configuration utilizes a permanent magnetic male and female levitation support for magnetic levitation. The novel wind turbine has a female part attached to a payload which is magnetically levitated above a ...

US Patent 8,149,079: Magnetically levitated mount (Sanza Kazadi) (2012)

A levitating mount apparatus is provided which utilizes a permanent magnetic male and female levitation support as described in U.S. Pat. No. 7,501,922. The mount has two general forms. In one general class, the mount ...

US Patent 7,501,922: Permanent magnetic male and female levitation supports (Sanza Kazadi) (2009)

A permanent magnetic male and female levitation support has a first part with a cavity and a plurality of retainment mechanisms incorporated therein, and a plurality of first permanent magnets evenly distributed around the perimeter ...

Invited Book Chapters (2)

Model Independent Economics Based on Swarm Engineering (S. Kazadi) Progress in Economics Research (2011)

In the classical approach to economics, conclusions about the way in which economic systems behave are drawn from the analysis of the consequences of assumptions about how the system constituents (individuals, firms, governments, etc.) will ...

Swarm Economics (Sanza Kazadi and John Lee) Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (2009)

The Hamiltonian Method of Swarm Design is applied to the design of an agent based economic system. The method allows the design of a system from the global behaviors to the agent behaviors, with a ...

Journal Papers (6)

On the Dynamics of Puck Clustering Systems (S. Kazadi, M. Chung, B. Lee, et al.) Robotics and Autonomous Systems (2004)

We examine the theoretical foundations for the dynamics of puck clustering systems. Key in this investigation is the development of methods of controlling variance in cluster size, an important precursor to swarm-mediated clustering. We derive ...

Swarm-Mediated Cluster-Based Construction (S. Kazadi, J. Wigglesworth, A. Grosz, et al.) Complex Systems (2004)

We investigate the use of swarm clustering algorithms in the design of simple robots capable of carrying out swarm-mediated construction. Methods for generating multiple clusters of predetermined size are developed. Relative cluster motion algorithms are ...

On the Convergence of Puck Clustering Systems (S. Kazadi, A. Abdul-Khaliq and R. Goodman) Robotics and Autonomous Systems (2002)

Puck clustering involves the physical relocation of small objects known as ‘pucks’ from random positions to a central location, which need not be specified a priori. The evolution of systems of clusters of pucks under ...

An Autonomous Water Vapor Plume Tracking Robot Using Passive Resistive Polymer Sensors (S. Kazadi, R. Goodman, D. Tsikata, et al.) Autonomous Robots (2000)

A simple reactive robot is described which is capable of tracking a water vapor plume to its source. The robot acts completely within the plume and is endowed with no deliberate information about wind direction ...

Conjugate Schema in the HP Heteropolymer Model of Protein Folding and Protein (S. Kazadi, H. Lin, S. Ogita, et al.) Complexity International (1999)

Conjugate schema are computational tools that allow for the identification of independent blocks of vector components. These allow researchers to focus their efforts on optimizations within blocks of vector components that are codependant, rather than ...

Conjugate Schema and Basis Representation of Crossover and Mutation Operators (S. Kazadi) Evolutionary Computation (1998)

In genetic search algorithms and optimization routines, the representation of the mutation and crossover operators are typically defaulted to the canonical basis. We show that this can be influential in the usefulness of the search ...

Conference Papers (18)

Decision-Making Swarms (Sanza Kazadi, George Jeno, Xinyu Guan, et al.) Proceedings of the 28th Modern Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference (2017)

While swarms that execute decisions are well known in the swarm community, swarms that exhibit this capability a priori have never before been achieved. We demonstrate a methodology, based on the Hamiltonian method of swarm ...

Generating swarm solution classes using the Hamiltonian Method of swarm design (M. Li, C. Qiu, J. Park, et al.) Staff Publications & Research (2017)

We utilize a swarm design methodology that enables us to develop classes of swarm solutions to specific specifications. The method utilizes metrics devised to evaluate the swarm’s progress – the global variables – along with ...

An Entrochemical Water Heater (Sanza Kazadi, Sabrina Lin and Kelvin Ye) Proceedings of the 11th International Green Energy Conference (2016)

Entrochemical systems are systems capable of generating internal thermal gradients through internalwater movements which simultaneously transfer get of vaporization between internal water reservoirs. These systems move to a chemical equilibrium state that generates and maintains ...

Compact Single Multistage Distillation (Sanza Kazadi, Brent Usui, Ashley An, et al.) Proceedings of the 11th International Green Energy Conference (2016)

We report the design and function of a distillation apparatus which uses salt concentration gradients todrive distillation and desalination of simulated sea water. Utilizing the entrochemical effect, the systemgenerates an internal thermal gradient. An internal ...

Entrochemical thermal battery design for atmospheric heat collectors Proceedings of the 4th International Conference and Exhibition on Clean Energy (2015)

We present two novel design modifications to the basic entrochemical system which enable the generation of an entrochemical thermal battery. The inclusion of a passive mixing mechanism enables the continual disruption of the water layer ...

Low cost solar chimney performance-improving enhancement (Sanza Kazadi, Meishan Liang, Aaron Togelang, et al.) Proceedings of the 4th International Conference and Exhibition on Clean Energy (2015)

Solar chimneys are potentially important components in energy-providing systems. These arepassive solar systems which transduce solar irradiance to airflow. The airflow, in turn, can be transformedinto electricity. While the ability of the solar chimney to ...

Improving energy scavenging capacity via a vertically configured closed-circuit PRO system (S. Kazadi, K. Park, J. Jeon, et al.) North American Conference on Sustainability, Energy, and the Environment 2014 (2014)

A novel configuration for a closed-circuit PRO (CPRO) system is described. The CPRO system enables fluid flow in both the draw and feed channels using gravitational potential energy. The new PRO system is designed to ...

Collecting energy from a planetary entropic Stirling engine (S. Kazadi, A. Schwartz, J. Huang, et al.) Asian Conference on Sustainability, Energy, and the Environment 2013 (2013)

We extend previous work [1,2] on entrochemical systems, energetically closed systems which spontaneously creates internal thermal gradients. Like electrical batteries, these thermal batteries use differing chemical potentials to generate work, and thermal work is extracted ...

A Membrane-Enabled Solar Heat Pipe for Solar Thermal Water Heating (S. Kazadi, A. Arzani, A. Schwartz, et al.) 2nd International Symposium on Environment-Friendly Energies and Applications (2012)

A membrane-enhanced solar heat pipe loop is presented. The device enables heat transfer between an elevated and low-lying area using a membrane-enabled mechanism. A working solution is vaporized in solar collectors, producing vapor which carries ...

Desalination powered by entropy (Sanza Kazadi, Young Hong, Calvin Chau, et al.) The Asian Conference on Sustainability, Energy and the Environment 2011 – Official Conference Proceedings (2011)

We describe in this paper a novel water distiller. The water distiller utilizes a thermal gradient device which spontaneously generates and maintains a thermal gradient through a process similar to osmosis. A theoretical derivation of ...

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