Dr. Phillip M. Feldman's home page

"Let your principles be few and fundamental." -- Marcus Aurelius

"Let your principles be few and fun." -- Phillip M. Feldman

    [OK. I don't really believe that.]

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Art (Visual Arts)


Books, Geography, History, Philosophy, Politics, Quotations, ...

Place Name Puzzle Solver, aka 'City Match'

Silly Geography Questions (for Kids)


Judaism


Music

Fun and Games with the English Language

Pseudoantonyms and Pseudosynonyms

Word Match (Vocabulary-Building Game)


Israeli (and International) Folk Dance


Python Language Resources


Recreational Mathematics


Engineering--Polarization Mismatch Loss Calculator

Personal News Items

1 July, 2025: After a year-long postdoctoral fellowship at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, my son Michael has taken up a professorship at New York University's Stern School of Business, where he teaches and does research in statistics. Here are links to Michael's bio and some of his published papers.   An additional paper describes the mineralogy of Israel's Negev Desert.

1 Jan, 2024: My daughter Ellen R. Novoseller is a researcher at the US DEVCOM Army Research Lab studying multi-agent coordination and human-guided machine learning. Her research focuses on multi-agent learning in adversarial conditions, human-AI interaction, sequential decision-making algorithms, and robot learning. Her goal is to develop AI systems that seamlessly interact with humans to augment human capabilities and improve people’s lives.

20 June, 2016: My daughter Ellen R. Feldman (now Ellen R. Novoseller) passed the doctoral candidacy exam at the California Institute of Technology. Her research topic involves signal processing for an electrical/neural bridge to be implanted in patients suffering from injuries to the lower spine, with the goal of restoring control of the legs and feet.

7 June, 2020: My daughter Ellen, as one of two co-first-authors on a paper submitted to the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, received awards for Best Conference Paper and Best Paper in Human-Robot Interaction.

7 April, 2018: "The Caltech Effect" has published an article about the research that my daughter is doing. (I love to bask in reflected glory).

29 March, 2018: A San Diego - area periodical published an interview with my sister, Prof. Pamela Cosman of UC San Diego, about an award that she recently received.

Mission

This website has two primary purposes of equal importance:

To ask a question, submit feedback, or submit an item to be posted, send me e-mail at Phillip.M.Feldman@gmail.com.