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John J. Kelly, Ph.D.

John J. Kelly III, Ph.D. is President of Model Software Corporation. Model Software is currently launching a new software technology that automates industrial process monitoring & diagnosis by exploiting process math models. Process monitoring, for industrial uses, will now for the first time be reliable, comprehensive, and economic.

Before starting Model Software Corporation, he led the artificial intelligence group at Martin Marietta Manned Space Systems where he directed corporate sponsored R&D into AI and NASA-sponsored AI. He had previously worked as a senior aerospace engineer in the advanced programs group and on the NASA space shuttle program where he received a NASA Certificate of Appreciation for his contribution to establishing that the External Tank was not the root cause of the Challenger disaster, and determining the root cause of the misleading data.

Dr. Kelly has a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Notre Dame, as well as an M.E. in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Computer Science, both from Tulane.

He is the 2003 recipient of the Harold A. Levey Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement from the Tulane School of Engineering .

He currently serves as the Executive Vice President of the New Orleans Navy League . He is the founder and Captain of the Krewe of Lafcadio .

He has served on the board of directors of the Louisiana Technology Council (LTC), as well as on the board of the Louisiana Angel Network, the Southeast Louisiana chapter of Infragard, on the Jesuit High School President's Advisory Board, and has represented the Tulane School of Science and Engineering on the Tulane Alumni Advisory Board . He serves on the organizing committee for the annual Tulane Engineering Forum.

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