Education:
M.S. (Computer Science), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1996.
Project: Implementation of Minimum Diameter Spanning Tree Algorithms.
B.S. (Computer Science), North Central College, Naperville, Illinois, 1990.
A.A.S (Computer Science), Lewis & Clark Community College, Godfrey, Illinois, 1984.
Employment:
Senior Research Analyst, Southwest Research Institute, Dept. of Space Studies (2008 - present)
Research Analyst, Southwest Research Institute, Dept. of Space Studies (2001 - 2008)
Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, 5ESS Intl. Switching Systems Div. (June 1984 - April 2001)
Recent External Projects:
NASA PGG: Joint Thermal and Collisional Modeling of Meteorite Parent Bodies (CO-I).
NASA OPR: Cratering in the Jovian System (CO-I).
NASA MDAP: Characterization of Secondary Cratering on Mars (CO-I).
NSF PAST: Formation of Asteroid Satellites (CO-I).
NASA IS: NRA2-37143, Automated Knowldege Discovery from Simulators (CO-I).
NASA AIS: NAG5-8097, Development of Artificial Intelligence Tools for the Study of Cratering on Planetary and Asteroidal Surfaces (CO-I).
Brief Biography:
At the Southwest Research Institute, Mr. Enke has designed and/or implemented geometric algorithms, image processing algorithms, user interfaces, and artificial intelligence applications (neural networks and expert systems) in support of the external projects listed above, as well as an internally funded project for Mars crater identification and morphological classification. He has also served as a liason with the NASA-JPL Machine Learning Group, implementing complex asteroid impact simulations and magnetospheric inversions on two JPL Beowulf clusters.
At Bell Labs (the research division of AT&T, and later, Lucent Technologies), he led several teams of software developers working on numerous company-critical Switching Systems projects, including the field support portion of a complex "Software Delivery Reengineering" project that included over 10,000 software developers. His primary responsibility was advanced algorithmic support for the 5ESS Software Integration and 5ESS Software Update teams. He also has extensive, ground-floor OOA/OOD experience as a friendly-user and requirements provider to the C++ language creation task force.
Recent Publications:
Daniel D. Durda, William F. Bottke Jr., David Nesvorny, Brian L. Enke, William J. Merline, Erik Asphaug, and Derek C. Richardson. Size-Frequency Distributions of Fragments from SPH/N-Body Simulations of Asteroid Impacts: Comparison with Observed Asteroid Families. Icarus, in press (19 pages)
Durda, D. D., W. F.
Bottke, B. L. Enke, D. Nesvorny, E. Asphaug, and D. C. Richardson, 2006.
Comparing results of SPH/N-body impact simulations
using both solid and rubble-pile targets. Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc. 38, 582.
Daniel D. Durda, William F. Bottke Jr., Brian L. Enke, William J. Merline, Erik Asphaug, Derek C. Richardson, Zoe M. Leinhardt. The formation of asteroid satellites in large impacts: Results from numerical simulations. Icarus 170, 243–257.
David Nesvorny, Brian L. Enke, William F. Bottke, Daniel D. Durda, Erik Asphaug, and Derek C. Richardson. Karin Cluster Formation via Asteroid Impact. Icarus, publication pending.
M.C.Burl, C.DeCoste, B.L.Enke, D.Mazzoni, W.J.Merline, L.Scharenbroich. Automated Knowledge Discovery from Simulators. SIAM Conference on Data Mining, 2006.
M. Magee, C.R. Chapman, B. Enke, S.W. Dellenback, W.J. Merline, M.P. Rigney. Automated Identification of Martian Craters Using Image Processing. LPSC 2003 abstract.