Keith A. Pray

Keith A. Pray is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Computer Science department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). He concurrently serves as a section lead for the Electronic Systems sector at BAE Systems. His research focuses on temporal data analysis, machine learning, and automated UI generation. He holds a BS (1998), MS (2004), and is pursuing a PhD (in progress) in Computer Science from WPI.

• Education:
  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, WPI, 1998 (High Distinction)
  • Master of Science in Computer Science, WPI, 2004
  • PhD candidate in Computer Science, WPI

Research Interests: Keith’s work emphasizes mining temporal association rules from complex data, automated user interface generation, and event detection in time series sequences. His system ‘ASAS’ is widely used at WPI. He holds a provisional patent for his data modeling innovations.

Awards:

• Geo. I. Alden Fellowship (2002)

Professional Roles: He led projects at the MA Norfolk County Sheriff's Office and served as a Research Engineer at WPI’s Bioengineering Institute (2003–2004). He runs the Kapowee incubator service and has held leadership roles in ACM, UPE, and campus organizations.

Teaching: Courses include CS 3043 (Social Implications of Information Processing) and CS 525W (Web Ware).