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faculty + postdocs

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William Yeoh
CSE Associate Professor
DCDS Director
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Ben Rachmut
Postdoctoral Researcher

Research area: Explainable scheduling, distributed constraint optimization

current phd students

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Stylianos Vasileiou
CSE Ph.D. Researcher

Research area: Explainable planning and scheduling
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Ashwin Kumar
CSE Ph.D. Researcher

Research area: Fairness, multi-agent planning, and explainable planning
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Jean Springsteen
DCDS Ph.D. Researcher

Research area: Polarization in social networks
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Yinxu Tang
CSE Ph.D. Researcher

Research area: Explainable planning and scheduling

former phd students

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Khoi Hoang
(Ph.D., 2022)

Next position: Software Engineer, Google

Dissertation: Dynamic Continuous Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems

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Athena Tabakhi
(Ph.D., 2021)

Next position: Lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis

Dissertation: Preference Elicitation in Constraint-Based Models: Models, Algorithms, and Applications

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Christabel Wayllace
(Ph.D., 2021)

Next position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta

Dissertation: Stochastic Goal Recognition Design

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Ping Hou
(Ph.D., 2017)

Next position: Software Engineer, Uber Advanced Technologies Group

Dissertation: Probabilistic Planning with Risk-Sensitive Criterion

former ms students

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Zijie Liu
(M.S., 2024; co-advised with Chien-Ju Ho)

Project: Comparison between LLMs and Crowdsourcing Workers for Data Annotation Tasks
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Yuchuan Wang
(M.S., 2024; co-advised with Chien-Ju Ho)

Next position: Ph.D. student, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Project: A Comparative Study of LLMs and UCB Algorithms on Multi-Arm Bandit Problems
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Zachary Zhao
(M.S., 2023)

Next position: AI/ML Software Engineer, Depth Engineering Inc.

Project: Exploring Opinion Dynamics Filtering Strategies on Social Network Data
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Ruoyao Yang
(M.S., 2021)

Next position: Software Development Engineer, Amazon

Project: Visualizations in Explainable Planning
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Tiancheng He
(M.S., 2020; co-advised with Chien-Ju Ho)

Project: Empirical Research on Multi-Armed Bandit Problems with Free Pulls
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Yuanming Xiao
(M.S., 2020)

Next position: Algorithm Engineer, Weibo Research and Development

Thesis: Embedding Preference Elicitation Within the Search for DCOP Solutions

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Xipeng Wang
(M.S., 2019)

Next position: Algorithm Engineer, Huawei

Project: Smart Home Audio Assistant
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Peter Kim
(M.S., 2018)

Next position: Security Engineer, Supernova Lending

Project: Optimal Scheduling of Smart Home Devices Using Integer Linear Programming with a Visual Interface
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Mounika Challa
(M.S., 2017)

Next position: Salesforce Developer, MST Solutions

Project: NMSU CS Graduate Course Planner
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Russell Folk
(M.S., 2017)

Next position: Research and Development Engineer, Sandia National Laboratories

Project: Using Reinforcement Learning to Generate Tariffs for Profitable Consumption in Power TAC
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Francisco Natividad
(M.S., 2016)

Next position: Software Engineer, Google

Project: On the Use of Off-the-Shelf Machine Learning Techniques to Predict Energy Demands of Power TAC Consumers
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Amirsaber Sharifi
(M.S., 2014)

Next position: Software Engineer, HCapital

Project: DeepDepth: A Framework to Visualize Social Network Data