I am an associate professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Washington University in St. Louis. I am also a co-director 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 2023: Honored to serve as a program co-chair of AAMAS 2023. Do submit your multiagent papers!
- June 2022: Honored to serve as a program co-chair of ICAPS 2022. Do submit your planning and scheduling papers!
- May 2022: JAIR paper on proactive dynamic DCOPs accepted.
- April 2022: JAIR paper on logic-based framework for explainable planning accepted.
- February 2022: ICAPS paper on visualization systems for explainable planning accepted.
- December 2021: AAAI paper on suboptimal stochastic goal recognition design accepted.
- 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.
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