I am an associate professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Washington University in St. Louis. I am also the steering committee chair and chair of the computational methodologies track of the Division of Computational and Data Sciences, a new inter-disciplinary PhD program spanning the Computer Science and Engineering department, the Brown School of Social Work and Public Health, and the Political Science and Psychology and Brain Sciences departments in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Prior to this, I was an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at New Mexico State University; a research scientist in the Living Analytics Research Center at Singapore Management University; and a post-doctoral research associate with Shlomo Zilberstein in the Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
I received my Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, supervised by Sven Koenig, and my M.S. and B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania, supervised by Vijay Kumar.
- May 2022: Honored to serve as a program co-chair of ICAPS 2022. Do submit your planning and scheduling papers!
- July 2021: Athena Tabakhi successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation and will be joining the CSE department at WashU as a lecturer. Congratulations Athena!
- July 2021: CP paper on latency-aware DCOPs accepted.
- April 2021: Christabel Wayllace successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation and will be joining Matt Taylor’s group as a postdoc. Congratulations Chris!
- February 2021: Honored to be elected as a AAAI senior member!
Read more about it in this WashU news article. - February 2021: JELIA paper on explainability through model reconciliation using logic programming accepted.
- December 2020: AAAI paper on explainability through model reconciliation using hitting sets accepted.
- December 2020: AAMAS paper on latency-aware DCOPs accepted.
- August 2019: Received a BSF grant with Roie Zivan to work on communication-sensitive DCOPs!
- August 2018: Received an NSF grant to work on smart home automation!
Read more about it in this WashU news article. - July 2018: Honored to be invited to give an early career spotlight presentation at IJCAI-ECAI 2018.
Paper accompanying the presentation here.
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