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RESEARCH STATEMENT

I am a computer scientist with research specialization in artificial intelligence. My long-term research goal is to create complete, robust, autonomous agents that can learn to interact with other intelligent agents in a wide range of complex, dynamic environments. These agents must sense their environment; engage in high-level cognitive decision-making; and then execute their actions in the environment. Moreover, to be effective, they should improve their performance automatically over time and reason explicitly about the behaviors of other agents, including teammates and adversaries. Thus, my research contributions are mainly in the areas of machine learning; autonomous agents and multiagent systems; and robotics. Application domains have included robot soccer, autonomous bidding agents, intelligent traffic management, general-purpose service robots, and autonomous vehicles.




PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION