Last updated Feb 20, 2008
Dana Nau's Current and Former Students and Advisees
Postdocs and research scientists
- Héctor Muñoz-Avila
- Ph.D., Computer Science, Univ. of Kaiserslautern, 1998
Postdoctoral researcher and assistant research scientist, U. of Maryland
and NRL, 1998-2001
- William Murdock
- Ph.D., College of Computing, Georgia Tech, 2001
Postdoctoral researcher,, NRL and U. of Maryland,
2001-2003
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- Ugur Kuter
- Ph.D., Computer Science, U. of Maryland, 2006
Research associate, U. of Maryland, 2006-present
Ph.D. students
- Ping-Chung Chi
- Ph.D., Computer Science, 1988
Dissertation: In Search of Better Decision Making in Computer Game
Playing
- George Vanecek
- Ph.D., Computer Science, 1989
Dissertation: Set Operations on Polyhedra using Decomposition Methods
- Qiang Yang
- Ph.D., Computer Science, 1989
Dissertation: Improving the Efficiency of Planning
Awards: NSERC Industry Chair, Simon Fraser University
- Raghu Karinthi
- Ph.D., Computer Science, 1990
Dissertation: An Algebraic Approach to Feature Interactions
- Subrata Ghosh
- Ph.D., Computer Science, 1994
Dissertation: Heuristic Search with Limited Resources
Co-advisor: A. Mahanti (Indian Institute of Management Calcutta)
- Satyandra Gupta
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, 1994
Dissertation: Automated Manufacturability Analysis of Machined Parts
Co-advisor: G. Zhang
Awards: University Fellow, ISR Fellow, 1994 Outstanding Systems Engineering
Graduate Student, NSF CAREER award, ONR Young Investigator award, Presidental
Early
Career (PECASE) award
- William Regli
- Ph.D., Computer Science, 1995
1995 Outstanding Systems Engineering Graduate Student
Dissertation: Geometric
Algorithms for the Recognition of Features from Solid Models
Awards: NSF
CAREER award
- Kutluhan Erol
- Ph.D., Computer Science, 1995
Dissertation: Hierarchical
Task-Network Planning Systems: Formalization, Analysis, and Implementation
Co-advisor: J. Hendler
- Stephen J. J. Smith
- Ph.D., Computer Science, 1997
Dissertation: Task-Network
Planning using Total-Order Forward Search, and Applications to Bridge and
to Microwave-Module Manufacture
Awards: AT&T fellow
- Reiko Tsuneto
- Ph.D., Computer Science, 1999
Dissertation:
Efficient Refinement Strategies for HTN Planning
Co-advisor: J. Hendler
- Amnon Lotem
- Ph.D., Computer Science, 2000
Dissertation: GraphHTN: Combining Planning Graphs and HTN Planning
- Mihai Ciocoiu
- Ph.D., Computer Science, 2001
Dissertation: Ontology-Based Translation
- Zhiyang Yao
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, 2003
Dissertation: Geometric Algorithms for Operation Planning of
Geometrically Complex Milling Features
- Ugur Kuter
- Ph.D., Computer Science, 2006
Dissertation: Planning under Uncertainty: Moving Forward
- Fusun Yaman
- Ph.D., Computer Science, 2006
Dissertation: Declarative Reasoning about Moving Objects
- Tsz-Chiu Au
- Ph.D., Computer Science, pending
- Austin Parker
- Ph.D., Computer Science, pending
- Amy Sliva
- Ph.D., Computer Science, pending
- J. Ryan Carr
- Ph.D., Computer Science, pending
- Eric Raboin
- Ph.D., Computer Science, pending
M.S. students
- Deborah Jones
- M.S., Computer Science, 1985. Research area: solid modeling
- Allen Teague
- M.S., Computer Science, 1985. Research area: game-tree search
- David Freides
- M.S., Computer Science, 1986. Research area: knowledge representation
- Michael Gray
- M.S., Computer Science, 1986. Research area: process planning
- Nicholas Ide
- M.S., Computer Science, 1987. Research area: process planning
- Qiang Yang
- M.S., Computer Science, 1987. Research area: AI planning
- Paul Konigsburg
- M.S., Computer Science, 1988. Research area: game-tree search
- Scott Thompson
- M.S., Computer Science, 1989. Research area: process planning
- Naresh Gupta
- M.S., Computer Science, 1991. Research area: AI planning
- Stephen J. Smith
- M.S., Computer Science, 1991. Research area: computer games
- Kiran Hebbar
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1996. Research area: Computer-Integrated Manufacturing.
Co-advisor: I. Minis
- Yue (Jason) Cao
- M.S., Computer Science, 2000. Research area: AI planning.
- Tsz-Chiu Au
- M.S., Computer Science, 2002. Research area: AI planning.
- Okhtay Ilghami
- M.S., Computer Science, 2002. Research area: AI planning.
- Dan Wu
- M.S., Computer Science. Research area: AI planning.
- Fusun Yaman
- M.S., Computer Science, 2004. Research area: AI planning.
- Lingling Zhang
- M.S., Computer Science. Research area: AI planning and multi-agent
systems.
Undergraduate honors students
- Daniel Levine
- B.S., Computer Science, 1992. Research area: search algorithms
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- Nirupama Chandrasekaran
- B.S., Computer Science, 1994. Research area: computer-aided design
CMPS Outstanding Senior.
- Yew Kung
- B.S., Computer Science, 1994. Research area: solid modeling.
CMPS Outstanding Senior.
- Sze Yuen Wong
- B.S., Computer Science, 1997. Research area: AI planning.
- Adam Bargteil
- B.S., Computer Science, 2000. Research area: computer bridge.
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- Adam Beytin
- B.S., Computer Science, 2006. Research area: atom planning.
- John Youngshik Shin
- B.S., Computer Science, 2006. Research area: AI planning.
CMPS Outstanding Senior