AAAI-10: Doctoral Consortium (DC)

Fifteenth AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium

AAAI and ACM/SIGART proudly present the Fifteenth AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium. The Doctoral Consortium (DC) provides an opportunity for a group of Ph.D. students to discuss and explore their research interests and career objectives with a panel of established researchers in artificial intelligence. The consortium has the following objectives: (1) to provide a setting for mutual feedback on participants' current research and guidance on future research directions; (2) develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research; (3) support a new generation of researchers with information and advice on academic, research, industrial, and non-traditional career paths; and (4) contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers and participation in conference events.

The Doctoral Consortium will be held as a workshop on July 11–12, 2010, immediately before the start of the main AAAI conference. Student participants in the Doctoral Consortium will receive complimentary conference registration and a fixed allowance for travel/housing.

Dates

July 11– 12, 2010. Collocated with AAAI-2010 in Atlanta GA.

Participants

• Finale Doshi, MIT
  (Mentor: Sven Koenig)
• James MacGlashan, UMBC
  (Mentor: Brad Clement)
• Ben Weber, UC-Santa Cruz
  (Mentor: David Aha)
• Megan Olsen, U-Mass
  (Mentor: Elizabeth Sklar)
• Shounan Dong, MIT
  (Mentor: Marie DesJardins)
• Reyhan Aydogan, Bogazici University
  (Mentor: Gita Sukthankar)
• Pooyan Fazli, UBC
  (Mentor: Maria Gini)
• Mehdi Manshadi, University of Rochester
  (Mentor: Ray Mooney)
• Sofia Lemons, University of New Hampshire
  (Mentor: Dragos Margineantu)
• Michelle Leonhardt, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
  (Mentor: Stephanie August)
• James McGlothin, The University of Texas at Dallas
  (Mentor: Chris Brooks)
• Tom Erez, Washington University in St. Louis
  (Mentor: Doina Precup)
• Lirong Xia, Duke University
  (Mentor: Maria Gini)
• Lisa Friedland, U-Mass
  (Mentor: Kiri Wagstaff)
• Chris Simpkins, Georgia Tech
  (Mentor: Sven Koenig)

Schedule

July 11

9:00 – 9:20 AM
Welcome

9:20 – 10:00 AM
Finale Doshi: Nonparametric Bayesian Approaches for Reinforcement Learning in Partially Observable Domains
(Mentor: Sven Koenig)

10:00 – 10:40 AM

10:40 – 11:10 AM
Break

11:10 – 11:50 AM
Ben Weber: Integrating Expert Knowledge and Experience
(Mentor: David Aha)

11:50 – 12:30 PM
Megan Olsen: A New Model for Cancer Cell Removal Based on Multi-Agent Fault Tolerance
(Mentor: Elizabeth Sklar)

12:30 – 1:15 PM
Lunch

1:15 – 2:15 PM
Presentation: How To Develop A Research Program

2:15 – 2:55 PM
Shounan Dong: Interactive Task-Plan Learning
(Mentor: Marie desJardins)

2:55 – 3:35 PM
Reyhan Aydogan: Preferences and Learning in Multi-Agent Negotiation
(Mentor: Gita Sukthankar)

3:35 – 4:05 PM
Break

4:05 – 4:45 PM
Pooyan Fazli: On Multi-Robot Area Coverage
(Mentor: Maria Gini)

4:45 – 5:25 PM
Mehdi Manshadi: Toward a Robust Deep Language Understanding System
(Mentor: Ray Mooney)

7:00 PM
Dinner

July 12

9:00 – 9:20 AM
Welcome

9:20 – 10:00 AM
Sofia Lemons: Continual On-line Planning (Dragos Margineantu)

10:00 – 10:40 AM
Michelle Leonhardt: Enhancing Affective Communication in Embodied Conversational Agents
(Mentor: Stephanie August)

10:40 – 11:10 AM
Break

11:10 – 11:50 AM
James MacGlothin: Framework and Schema for Semantic Web Knowledge Bases
(Mentor: Chris Brooks)

11:50 – 12:30 PM
Tom Erez: Local Optimization for Simulation of Natural Motion
(Mentor: Doina Precup)

12:30 – 1:15 PM
Lunch

1:15 – 2:15 PM
Panel

2:15 – 2:45 PM
Lirong Xia: Computational Social Choice: Strategic and Combinatorial Aspects
(Mentor: Maria Gini)

2:45 – 3:25 PM
Lisa Friedland: Detecting Social Ties and Copying Events from Affiliation Data.
(Mentor: Kiri Wagstaff)

3:25 – 4:05 PM
James MacGlashan: Hierarchical Skill Learning for High-Level Planning
(Mentor: Brad Clement)

4:05 – 4:30 PM
Wrap-up

Contact

For questions or further information, please contact the 2010 Doctoral Consortium Chair, Chris Brooks. (cbrooks . at. usfca.edu)

Doctoral Consortium Chair

• Chris Brooks
  Harney Science Center, Room 54
  University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton Street
  San Francisco, CA 94117-1080 USA
  (415) 422-5221. Email: cbrooks@cs.usfca.edu

The Doctoral Consortium call for applications is available as a printablePDF document and also in html.

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