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.