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K. Eric Harper is a senior principal scientist at ABB Corporate Research specializing in software architecture and sustainable technologies. Over the past nine years he has made significant contributions to the Industrial Internet, process automation, substation automation, and power electronics. Eric graduated from Virginia Tech and attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in electric power engineering as part of the General Electric Advanced Course in Engineering (ABC), which provides training across the engineering disciplines for practical use of computer solutions and how to effectively communicate their results. Eric transferred to Westinghouse in their Power Generation division making substantial technical contributions for a service bureau dedicated to monitoring and diagnosing conditions in electric power plants. Since then Eric has had a variety of assignments over the past two decades as a hands-on project lead, development manager and software architect in distributed architecture, factory automation, business applications, middleware tools, server management, IT security, healthcare IT, software performance and scalability. Eric’s current work is to lead ABB’s architecture for industrial analytics. He recently served on the Steering Committee for the IEEE/IFIP Working Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA) and represents ABB at the Industrial Internet Consortium as Technology Working Group co-chair.
What is the pop in your job? What drives you? What is your passion?
I am a Senior Principal Scientist with ABB Corporate Research. As a world leading automation supplier in industry, utilities, transport, and infrastructure, ABB is committed to open collaboration in organizations. One of my roles is to contribute to the Industrial Internet Consortium where I am elected to represent the Large Industry members on the Steering Committee, and I chair the Technology Working Group and am founder and chair of the Industrial Artificial Intelligence Task Group. I am privileged to engage in discussions and innovation with my colleagues, both within ABB and externally, to identify and lead technology initiatives that advance the state-of-the-art for industrial digitalization, advanced analytics and artificial intelligence.
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