Selected as an AAAI Fellow (2025), Secretary-Treasurer elect for IJCAI, Co-Chair of CODS-COMAD 2024, hessian.AI fellow, RBCDSAI Distinguished Faculty Fellow, AAAI Senior Member; Received Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award from UTD ECSS; Two papers accepted at UAI.
Research Experience
Currently a Professor and Director of the Center for Machine Learning at Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas; Previously a faculty member at Indiana University until 2017; Prior to that, an Assistant Professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine.
Education
Ph.D. from Oregon State University, School of EECS, under the supervision of Professor Prasad Tadepalli; Post-Doc at the Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin Madison, working with Professors Jude Shavlik and David Page.
Background
Research interests lie in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, with a focus on their applications to healthcare. Specifically interested in Relational Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Graphical Models, and Planning.
Miscellany
More information about his team and projects can be found on his webpage.