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Subbarao Kambhampati
( సుబ్బారావు
కంభంపాటి )
Professor!
Dept. of Computer Science & Engg.,(Office: BY560)
Fulton School of Engineering
Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona 85287-5406
Phone: (480) 965-0113, Fax: (480) 965-2751,
Email: rao who lives at asu.edu
(Former President, AAAI;
Fellow,
AAAI,
AAAS,
ACM)
Research:
Yochan |
Students |
Robots |
Publications |
Surveys |
Yochan |
Yochan-I3 |
Model-lite |
Planning List |
Press
Teaching:
Student
Comments|
Intro to AI |
Info. Integ |
Grad AI |
Planning |
ASU101 |
Outreach.. |
YouTube Channel
Personal:
CV|
Bio |
Travel |
Usenet Postings |
Doctors in the family |
Photos
Other:
Blog! |
Bibfinder |
QUIC/QPIAD |
ET-I3 |
ICAPS Festivus
Tutorials:
Synthesizing
Explainable and Deceptive Behavior for Human-AI Interaction (AAAI-20)|
Preferences and Partial Satisfaction in Planning (AAAI-10) |
Information
Integration (AAAI-07) |
Planning Graph
Heuristics (IJCAI-07) |
Learning for
Planning (MLSS-06) |
Advances in
Planning (AAAI-00) |
more..
I
have written several columns on the impacts of AI for The Hill
An
interview with me in the series Humans of AI:Stories, Not Stats
Polanyi's
Revenge and AI's New Romance with Tacit Knowledge (CACM Viewpoint)
Various media statements/interviews related to AI
Videos
of my recent research talks..
Checkout
my over-the-top opening statement at the AAAI 2020 debate on
Academic AI Research in an age of Industry Labs
Talk
at the 2020 Samsung AI Forum on Human-Aware AI
Polanyi
vs. Planning (Planning around AI's New Romance with Tacit
Knowledge) (Invited talk at ICAPS 2020 DC).
Defending Our Reality In the
Era of Deep Fakes Talk at Big Data & AI Toronto
Synthesizing Explainable Behavior for Human-AI Collaboration
AAMAS 2019 Keynote (Montreal, May 15, 2019). (Here is a
version of the talk given at the annual
meeting of Taiwan Association of AI
Challenges of Human-Aware AI Systems AAAI Presidential
Address. (New Orleans, Feb 4, 2018)
Distinguished
lecture at Jonsson School; UT Dallas; Feb 2019)
AI: Current and Emerging Capabilities and Research (A presentation
given at National Academy of Science in March 2019)
Keynote Presentation on AI/ML given at FCC Forum on AI/ML (Nov 30, 2018)
Rise of AI: Status, Challenges, Impacts. A plenary public lecture given at
TU Delft as part of ICAPS/CPAIOR 2018. (June 27, 2018)
Our Relationship with AI Panel at the Computer History Museum,
Mountain View, CA. September
2017. (on YouTube)
AI & Cyber Security Presentation at National Academy of
Science, August 2017.
Origins Great Debate on "Future of AI: Who is in Control?"
My "Last Lecture": You Can't Do That, Dave! Collaeral Lessons from a Computational Quest
to Design HAL
Check me
out on the AI episode (Episode 3) of Bill Nye Saves The World on Netflix!
..yet more public talks (with videos)
Polanyi's
Revenge and AI's New Romance with Tacit Knowledge (CACM Viewpoint)
Various media statements/interviews related to AI
Videos
of my recent research talks..
Checkout
my over-the-top opening statement at the AAAI 2020 debate on
Academic AI Research in an age of Industry Labs
Talk
at the 2020 Samsung AI Forum on Human-Aware AI
Polanyi
vs. Planning (Planning around AI's New Romance with Tacit
Knowledge) (Invited talk at ICAPS 2020 DC).
Defending Our Reality In the
Era of Deep Fakes Talk at Big Data & AI Toronto
Synthesizing Explainable Behavior for Human-AI Collaboration
AAMAS 2019 Keynote (Montreal, May 15, 2019). (Here is a
version of the talk given at the annual
meeting of Taiwan Association of AI
Challenges of Human-Aware AI Systems AAAI Presidential
Address. (New Orleans, Feb 4, 2018)
Distinguished
lecture at Jonsson School; UT Dallas; Feb 2019)
AI: Current and Emerging Capabilities and Research (A presentation
given at National Academy of Science in March 2019)
Keynote Presentation on AI/ML given at FCC Forum on AI/ML (Nov 30, 2018)
Rise of AI: Status, Challenges, Impacts. A plenary public lecture given at
TU Delft as part of ICAPS/CPAIOR 2018. (June 27, 2018)
Our Relationship with AI Panel at the Computer History Museum,
Mountain View, CA. September
2017. (on YouTube)
AI & Cyber Security Presentation at National Academy of
Science, August 2017.
Origins Great Debate on "Future of AI: Who is in Control?"
My "Last Lecture": You Can't Do That, Dave! Collaeral Lessons from a Computational Quest
to Design HAL
Check me
out on the AI episode (Episode 3) of Bill Nye Saves The World on Netflix!
..yet more public talks (with videos)
Videos
of my recent research talks..
Checkout
my over-the-top opening statement at the AAAI 2020 debate on
Academic AI Research in an age of Industry Labs
Talk
at the 2020 Samsung AI Forum on Human-Aware AI
Polanyi
vs. Planning (Planning around AI's New Romance with Tacit
Knowledge) (Invited talk at ICAPS 2020 DC).
Defending Our Reality In the
Era of Deep Fakes Talk at Big Data & AI Toronto
Synthesizing Explainable Behavior for Human-AI Collaboration
AAMAS 2019 Keynote (Montreal, May 15, 2019). (Here is a
version of the talk given at the annual
meeting of Taiwan Association of AI
Challenges of Human-Aware AI Systems AAAI Presidential
Address. (New Orleans, Feb 4, 2018)
Distinguished
lecture at Jonsson School; UT Dallas; Feb 2019)
AI: Current and Emerging Capabilities and Research (A presentation
given at National Academy of Science in March 2019)
Keynote Presentation on AI/ML given at FCC Forum on AI/ML (Nov 30, 2018)
Rise of AI: Status, Challenges, Impacts. A plenary public lecture given at
TU Delft as part of ICAPS/CPAIOR 2018. (June 27, 2018)
Our Relationship with AI Panel at the Computer History Museum,
Mountain View, CA. September
2017. (on YouTube)
AI & Cyber Security Presentation at National Academy of
Science, August 2017.
Origins Great Debate on "Future of AI: Who is in Control?"
My "Last Lecture": You Can't Do That, Dave! Collaeral Lessons from a Computational Quest
to Design HAL
Check me
out on the AI episode (Episode 3) of Bill Nye Saves The World on Netflix!
..yet more public talks (with videos)
Talk
at the 2020 Samsung AI Forum on Human-Aware AI
Polanyi
vs. Planning (Planning around AI's New Romance with Tacit
Knowledge) (Invited talk at ICAPS 2020 DC).
Defending Our Reality In the
Era of Deep Fakes Talk at Big Data & AI Toronto
Synthesizing Explainable Behavior for Human-AI Collaboration
AAMAS 2019 Keynote (Montreal, May 15, 2019). (Here is a
version of the talk given at the annual
meeting of Taiwan Association of AI
Challenges of Human-Aware AI Systems AAAI Presidential
Address. (New Orleans, Feb 4, 2018)
Distinguished
lecture at Jonsson School; UT Dallas; Feb 2019)
AI: Current and Emerging Capabilities and Research (A presentation
given at National Academy of Science in March 2019)
Keynote Presentation on AI/ML given at FCC Forum on AI/ML (Nov 30, 2018)
Rise of AI: Status, Challenges, Impacts. A plenary public lecture given at
TU Delft as part of ICAPS/CPAIOR 2018. (June 27, 2018)
Our Relationship with AI Panel at the Computer History Museum,
Mountain View, CA. September
2017. (on YouTube)
AI & Cyber Security Presentation at National Academy of
Science, August 2017.
Origins Great Debate on "Future of AI: Who is in Control?"
My "Last Lecture": You Can't Do That, Dave! Collaeral Lessons from a Computational Quest
to Design HAL
Check me
out on the AI episode (Episode 3) of Bill Nye Saves The World on Netflix!
..yet more public talks (with videos)
Defending Our Reality In the
Era of Deep Fakes Talk at Big Data & AI Toronto
Synthesizing Explainable Behavior for Human-AI Collaboration
AAMAS 2019 Keynote (Montreal, May 15, 2019). (Here is a
version of the talk given at the annual
meeting of Taiwan Association of AI
Challenges of Human-Aware AI Systems AAAI Presidential
Address. (New Orleans, Feb 4, 2018)
Distinguished
lecture at Jonsson School; UT Dallas; Feb 2019)
AI: Current and Emerging Capabilities and Research (A presentation
given at National Academy of Science in March 2019)
Keynote Presentation on AI/ML given at FCC Forum on AI/ML (Nov 30, 2018)
Rise of AI: Status, Challenges, Impacts. A plenary public lecture given at
TU Delft as part of ICAPS/CPAIOR 2018. (June 27, 2018)
Our Relationship with AI Panel at the Computer History Museum,
Mountain View, CA. September
2017. (on YouTube)
AI & Cyber Security Presentation at National Academy of
Science, August 2017.
Origins Great Debate on "Future of AI: Who is in Control?"
My "Last Lecture": You Can't Do That, Dave! Collaeral Lessons from a Computational Quest
to Design HAL
Check me
out on the AI episode (Episode 3) of Bill Nye Saves The World on Netflix!
..yet more public talks (with videos)
Challenges of Human-Aware AI Systems AAAI Presidential
Address. (New Orleans, Feb 4, 2018)
Distinguished
lecture at Jonsson School; UT Dallas; Feb 2019)
AI: Current and Emerging Capabilities and Research (A presentation
given at National Academy of Science in March 2019)
Keynote Presentation on AI/ML given at FCC Forum on AI/ML (Nov 30, 2018)
Rise of AI: Status, Challenges, Impacts. A plenary public lecture given at
TU Delft as part of ICAPS/CPAIOR 2018. (June 27, 2018)
Our Relationship with AI Panel at the Computer History Museum,
Mountain View, CA. September
2017. (on YouTube)
AI & Cyber Security Presentation at National Academy of
Science, August 2017.
Origins Great Debate on "Future of AI: Who is in Control?"
My "Last Lecture": You Can't Do That, Dave! Collaeral Lessons from a Computational Quest
to Design HAL
Check me
out on the AI episode (Episode 3) of Bill Nye Saves The World on Netflix!
..yet more public talks (with videos)
AI: Current and Emerging Capabilities and Research (A presentation
given at National Academy of Science in March 2019)
Keynote Presentation on AI/ML given at FCC Forum on AI/ML (Nov 30, 2018)
Rise of AI: Status, Challenges, Impacts. A plenary public lecture given at
TU Delft as part of ICAPS/CPAIOR 2018. (June 27, 2018)
Our Relationship with AI Panel at the Computer History Museum,
Mountain View, CA. September
2017. (on YouTube)
AI & Cyber Security Presentation at National Academy of
Science, August 2017.
Origins Great Debate on "Future of AI: Who is in Control?"
My "Last Lecture": You Can't Do That, Dave! Collaeral Lessons from a Computational Quest
to Design HAL
Check me
out on the AI episode (Episode 3) of Bill Nye Saves The World on Netflix!
..yet more public talks (with videos)
Rise of AI: Status, Challenges, Impacts. A plenary public lecture given at
TU Delft as part of ICAPS/CPAIOR 2018. (June 27, 2018)
Our Relationship with AI Panel at the Computer History Museum,
Mountain View, CA. September
2017. (on YouTube)
AI & Cyber Security Presentation at National Academy of
Science, August 2017.
Origins Great Debate on "Future of AI: Who is in Control?"
My "Last Lecture": You Can't Do That, Dave! Collaeral Lessons from a Computational Quest
to Design HAL
Check me
out on the AI episode (Episode 3) of Bill Nye Saves The World on Netflix!
..yet more public talks (with videos)
AI & Cyber Security Presentation at National Academy of
Science, August 2017.
Origins Great Debate on "Future of AI: Who is in Control?"
My "Last Lecture": You Can't Do That, Dave! Collaeral Lessons from a Computational Quest
to Design HAL
Check me
out on the AI episode (Episode 3) of Bill Nye Saves The World on Netflix!
..yet more public talks (with videos)
My "Last Lecture": You Can't Do That, Dave! Collaeral Lessons from a Computational Quest
to Design HAL
Check me
out on the AI episode (Episode 3) of Bill Nye Saves The World on Netflix!
..yet more public talks (with videos)
..yet more public talks (with videos)
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Subbarao Kambhampati (Rao) was born a long long time ago in Peddapuram
in Andhra Pradesh, India. After formative education at "the school
next to Cinema Hall"
(where he liked the teacher of the 1st grade so much that he stayed in
that class for 2nd and 3rd grades too), the "School behind
Anjaneyaswamy Temple" (which has since been demolished to make way for
a sweet stall), Sri Veeraraju
High School (S.V. Highschool), and Sri Raja Vatsavaayi Buchchi
Seetayamma Jagapati Bahaddur Maharanee College
(S.R.V.B.S.J.B.M.R. College, no less!), he survived JEE and did his Bachelors in
Electrical Engineering (Electronics!--although he still couldn't
repair the tape recorder to his father's satisfaction) at the Indian Institute of
Technology, Madras (Alakananda, Jamuna & Tapati). Continuing along his degree grabbing spree, he
landed a Masters and a
Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park.
After a brief post-doctoral stint at Stanford, Rao has been having a
blast crawling up the faculty hierarchy in the Computer Science department at ASU
since 1991. He started as a quarter professor, became a half Professor
in 1996 and a FULL (!) Professor in 2000. Continuing this geometric
rise, his current goal is to become two professors very soon (he is
waiting for the furlough season to pass first though, lest he be hit with two
furloughs).
Rao directs the Yochan research
group which is associated with the AI
Lab at ASU. In the good old days, he used to be mostly interested in
planning and decision-making capabilities for autonomous agents. Lately
he discovered humans, and decided they are fun to keep around as AI
takes over the world. Accordingly, his current research agenda revolves mainly
around
human-aware AI systems.
He is the recipient of a 1992
NSF Research Initiation Award, a 1994
NSF young investigator award,
a
2001-2002 College of Engineering teaching
excellence award, and a 2004 IBM Faculty Award and multiple
Google
Research Awards (2007, 2010, 2013 & 2016). In 2004, he was named a
Fellow of AAAI (Association for Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence). In 2011, he was selected by ASU students to give a Last Lecture.
In 2017, he was elected a fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2018, he was dubbed a
"distinguished almnnus" by the Computer Science Department of
University of Maryland, College Park (with his own
wall plaque and all!). In 2019, he was named a fellow of the
Association for the Computing Machinery (ACM). In 2022, IIT Madras also
relented and recognized him as a
"distinguished alumnus" of the Institute!.
He is also the recipient of the 2025 AAAI/EAAI Patrick
H. Winston Oustanding Educator Award.
Within his department, he has been recognized both for his teaching
(Teacher of the year, 2012)
and research (Best Researcher, 2005, 2017). What Rao lacks in a
Wikipedia page, he more than makes up with his IMDB page.
He has been an
invited speaker at multiple conferences starting way back with
AAAI 1996 and . He also
gave a couple of well received tutorials on planning and databases,
including one on automated
planning (AAAI-2000), one on
information
integration on the web (AAAI-2002 and AAAI-2007), and one on
planning graph
heuristics (ICAPS 2006, IJCAI 2007).
Click
here
for further biographical information.
Here is a
detailed CV in pdf.
In 2013, Rao has been elected to the IJCAI Board of Trustees,
and had great fun
program-chairing the first-ever leap year edition of IJCAI 2016 that
just concluded in New York.
In the past, Rao served as the program co-chair for the 2005 National Conference on
Artificial Intelligence AAAI-05,
which in the impartial opinion of many people such as him was the best
AAAI ever (at least in 2005..). More, recently he co-chaired the 2010
AAAI special track on AI & Web, and served as a councilor for
AAAI for a thr
ee year term 2009-2012. He served as the
conference committee chair for AAAI during 2012-2014.
Rao served as
the program co-chair for ICAPS
2013 and as an area chair for IJCAI 2013. He will be a
senior program committee member for AAAI and ICAPS in 2014.
He also co-chaired the 2000 AI Planning and
Scheduling (AIPS) Conference, sat on the exalted ICAPS executive committee
(2002-2008).
He is on the
editorial board of ACM
Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology and IEEE Intelligent
Systems, and serves on the advisory board of JAIR (for which, he was an
associate editor earlier). He also served on the
editorial board for the
AI Magazine.
He had been on the
progam committees of most AAAIs since 1992; all AIPS, (most) ECP and all ICAPS
conferences, as well as a smattering of database conferences.
He served on the senior program committees of AAAI 2006,2008,2011,2012 and IJCAI
2007 (area chair) and 2009.
His professional service and his late-night TV
viewing intersected for once recently when he agreed to run the
first-ever Festivus at an
academic conference!
Rao thinks it is way cool to get paid for filling space with the sound
of his own voice.
Some students seem to agree with him, going as far as to get him
assorted
teaching awards,
or aggressively stuffing
ballots to get him a Teacher of the Year
nod.
Others are more inscrutable, trying their best to
make him give
the
last lecture. He recently became the recipient of the 2025 AAAI/EAAI Patrick
H. Winston Oustanding Educator Award!
Here, at any rate, are student
comments and
beauty numbers
from the teaching evaluations. Finally, here is an ornate statement of
his teaching
philosophy that Rao was asked to write for a teaching award
nomination. Here is a bit of
media coverage of Rao's teaching methods (and here he is trying to
improve his publication count
through letters to editor)..
Most of his courses are available these days on his very own
Youtube
Channel:
Professional service:
Rao served as the president of AAAI,
the
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and did
his bit to
save the world from the impending Robot armageddon.
He was also a founding board of director of Partnership on AI . More
recently, he is serving as the chair of AAAS Section T (Information,
Communication and Computation).
Publications:
Here are online versions of
Rao's (okay, mostly his students') publications.
There is mounting evidence that at least some of these are
actually
read
by others.
One of them even received a
runner-up award for 10 year
influential paper at ICAPS 2010.
You can also find Rao's tutorials/survey talks
and such here
Talks & Tutorials:
Here are some of the recent overview talks and tutorials:
Wittgenstein's
papers and Faraday's talks: Maxims for a Milk-fed Researcher (An
invited talk given at IJCAI 2013 Doctoral Consortium)
Back to the Future of Planning, talk at
ACAI/ICAPS Summer School on Automated Planning and Scheduling
Preferences and
Partial Satisfaction in Planning. A tutorial delivered at AAAI
2010 (with J. Benton and Jorge Baier).
Incomplete domain models, uncertain users and open worlds: Foundations
of Model-lite Planning Seminar at CMU Robotics Institute; 4/2/2010
(Streaming
video)
Current Group Members:
Students:
Alumni:
Visiting Scholars/PostDocs:
- Chao Qi, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Visiting faculty scholar; Summer 2016-Summer 2017)
- Yu Zhang
(Postdoc; Summer
2013--Summer 2015); Research Assistant Professor (Fall--
--2015-).
- Tenure Track Faculty Member; CIDSE; ASU (Fall 2016 -- )
- Satya Gautam Vadlamudi (Postdoc; Spring 2015--Summer 2016)
- Hankz Hankui Zhuo (2012-2013) & (Spring-Fall 2015) (Faculty member; Sun Yat-sen University)
- Sungwook Yoon (2006-2008); was an Assistant Research Professor at ASU. Currently a Research Scientist at (Xerox) PARC, Palo Alto..
Ph.D.:
- Dr!
Siddhant Bhambri (Spring 2021- ; Ph.D. Fall 2025) (Defended [Nov 20, 2025])
- Ph.C. (Candidacy) (April 7, 2025)
- First Employment: Research Scientist, Amazon AGI
- Dr! Karthik
Valmeekam (Fall 2021-Fall 2025; Ph.D.) (Defended [Nov 19, 2025])
IBM
Ph.D. Fellowship (2024-2025)
- Ph.C. (Candidacy) (April 3, 2025) (Video of PhD Proposal Presentation)
- First Emloyment: Research Scientist; Amazon AGI.
-
Dr!
Lin Guan
(Fall 2019-Fall 2024; Ph.D.) (Defended [Oct 21, 2024])
- Ph.C. (Candidacy). [March 25, 2024]
- Ph.D. (Defense). [Oct 21, 2024] (Defense Video)
- Dean's Dissertation
Award for 2025.
- First Employment: Research Scientist with Meta GenAI
-
Dr!Mudit Verma
(Fall 2019-Summer 2024 ; Ph.D.) (Defended [Aug 20, 2024])
- Ph.C. (Candidacy). [May 15, 2024]
- Ph.D. (Defense). [Aug 20, 2024] (Defense Video)
- First Employment: Research Scientist with Google DeepMind.
- Dr!Utkarsh Soni (Spring 2019-Spring 2024 ; Ph.D.) (Defended [Apr 12, 2024])
-
Dr! Zahra
Zahedi (Fall 2018-2023 ; Ph.D.) [Defended [Nov 2, 2023]]
- Dean's Dissertation
Award for 2024.
- HRI Pioneer
Recognition. 2024.
- Defense Video
- Ph.C. (Candidacy) [Aug 14, 2023] Proposal Video
- First Employment: Scientist, Honda Research.
-
Dr!
Alberto Olmo (Fall 2018-Fall 2022 ; Ph.D., Defended [Nov 2, 2022])
- Defense Video
- Ph.C. (Candidacy) [Apr 15, 2022]
- First employment: MLOPS Engineer @ Vianai Systems.
- Dr! Sriram
Gopalakrishnan (Fall 2017-Fall 2022) Ph.D. Defended [Oct 28,
2022].
- Defense Video
- First Employment: AI Research Scientist, JP Morgan AI Research.
- Dr! Sachin
Grover (Fall 2016--Summer 2022) Ph.D. Defended [Jul 18, 2022]
- Ph.C. (Candidacy) [Oct 15, 2021]
- First employment: Research Scientist, (Xerox) PARC --> SRI
- Dr! Sarath Sreedharan (Fall 2016--Summer --
--2022)(Ph.D.) Defended [Jun 28,
2022]. Thesis;
Defense Video
-
Named
to IEEE AI 10 To Watch, 2024
-
ICAPS Distinguished Dissertation Award (Runner-up). 2023.
- Dean's Dissertation Award for 2022 [Nov, 2022]
- Ph.C. (Candidacy) [Jul 23, 2021]. Proposal Video
- AAAI-20 Outstanding
Prpgram Committee Member award (one of 12 recognized).
- Recipient of the 2017
CSE Outstanding Masters Student
award.
- First employment: Assistant Professor, Colorado State University
- Dr! Yantian Zha (Fall
2015-17:MS; Fall 2017: Ph.D.) (Defended [Jun 7, 2022])
- Ph.C. (Candidacy) [Oct 18, 2021].
- Defense [Jun 7, 2022]. Thesis Defense presentation
- First employment: Postdoctoral Fellow at Marlyland Robotics, UMD.
- Dr! Anagha Kulkarni (Fall 2015 - Spring 2021) (Ph.D.) (Proposal on [May 1, 2020])(Defense on [Mar 3, 2021])
- Dr! Sailik Sengupta
(Fall 2015-Fall 2020)(Ph.D.)(Proposal on [Apr 28, 2020])(Defense on [Sep 21,
2020])Defense Video
(Celebration
Pics) (Dissertation)
- Proposal Presentation video ([Apr 29, 2020])
- IBM Ph.D. Fellowship (2018-20)
- First Employment: Research Scientist at Amazon AI
- Dr! Lydia
Manikonda(Fall 2013-Summer 2019; Defended [May 20, 2019])
(Ph.D) Defense Video (+ slides) (Dissertation)
- First Employment: Faculty member at RPI
- Dr! Tathagata Chakraborty(Fall 2013-Fall 2018;
Defended [Nov 5, 2018]).
Defense
Video ( Post-defense Celebration Photos)
(Ph.D) (Dissertation)
- First Employment: IBM Research AI
-
Named
to IEEE AI 10 To Watch, 2020
-
ICAPS Distinguished Dissertation Award (Runner-up). 2019.
-
ASU CIDSE Outstanding Ph.D. Student. 2019.
- IBM Ph.D. Fellowship (2016-17) (A news story)
- IBM Ph.D. Fellowship (2017-18)
- Dr! Yuheng Hu(Spring 2010-)
(Ph.D) Defended: [Nov 14, 2014]
(Video of the
defense) (Slides(pptx))
(Dissertation)
;
Ph.D. Candidacy: [December 12,
2013] ( video
and
slides
from the proposal defense;
(Ph.D)
- Faculty member, Dept of Information and Decision Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago.
- Best Paper Honorable Mention, CHI 2013
- Dr! Kartik Talamadupula(Spring 2007-)
(Bachelors; Dec 2007)(M.S.-> Ph.D.(Fall 2008- )
Defended [Nov 6, 2014].
(Video of the defense)
(Ph.D. Candidacy: [Nov 18, 2013]. Proposal presentation: (
video)slides (pptx)
slides (pdf)
Dissertation.
- First Employment: IBM Watson Labs (Research Staff Member)
-
CSE Distinguished Senior award, 2008.
-
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Student (honorable mention), 2008
(
local press)
2
- Recepient of FURI and CS UG Research grants)
- Science Foundation of Arizona (SFAZ) Fellow (2008).
- Dr! Sushovan De(Spring 2009-Spring 2014)
Defended [May 20, 2014]
(Dissertation)
Ph.D. Candidacy: [July 12,
2013] ( video excerpt from the proposal defense)
(Ph.D)
- First Employment: Google
- Dr! Tuan Anh Nguyen(Fall 2007-Spring 2014)
(Ph.D) Defended [May 5, 2014]
(Video of the defense:
Part 1 (1h 3min) Part
2 (5 min)) slides (pptx)
slides (pdf)
Dissertation.
Ph.D. Candidacy: [Jul 18, 2012]. (Proposal presentation video)
- First Employment: Mathworks
- Science Foundation of Arizona (SFAZ) Fellow (2007)
- Dr! William Cushing (Spring
2004-Fall 2012) M.S. -> Ph.D. Ph.D. Candidacy: [Dec 2,
2011]. Defended: [Nov 16, 2012] ( Presentation Slides; Video of the defense: Part 1 and
Part 2; the
dissertation)
(Defense Photos)
- First Employment: Post-doc at Berkeley (with Stuart Russell)
- Fulton Fellow for 2006-07
- University Graduate Scholar 2006-07
- Dr! J. Benton (Spring
2004-) (Defended M.S. thesis [Jul 19, 2005]). Ph.D. ( Defended
successfully [Jul 18, 2012]) (Photos)
(Defense video)
, presentation slides and
the
dissertation.
- Currently, Senior Research Scientist, NASA AMES.
- Candidacy: 4/22/2011 (Presentation video and audio)
-
J. and his planner won a swanky cup and a
certificate for
distinguished performance
at the
2006 Intl. Planning Competition.
- ARCS fellow for 2009.
- Dr! Raju Balakrishnan(Spring 2007-)
Ph.D. ( Successfully defended [Jul 19, 2012]) (Photos) (Defense Video Part 1 and
Part 2);
the
presentation slides and the dissertation.
- First Employment: Groupon
- Candidacy: 2/22/2011 (Presentation video and audio)
-
Recipient of Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program Award (2009-10).
-
Recipient of WWW 2010 Best Poster Award.
- Dr! Menkes van den Briel (Spring
2003-) Ph.D. (Ph.C. since [Dec 15, 2005]) Defended Successfully [Jul 31, 2008]
(Thesis slides.
audio))
(Pictures)
(First employment: Reseach faculty at Leeds School of Business,
U. Colorado; Currently at NICTA Canberra)
- Recipient of an
honorable mention for the 2009
ICAPS Best Dissertation Award.
- Menkes was in the news a lot once for his earlier work on effective strategies for airplane boarding. (He was even on Wall Street Journal front page recently; and also on Wired ;-)
- Dr. Dan Bryce (Summer
2002-) Ph.D. (Ph.C. since [Nov 18, 2005])(Defended [Apr 20, 2007]!)
(Slides.
Audio
)
(Pictures)
(Currently on the faculty at Utah State University)
-
Recipient of the 2009
ICAPS Best Dissertation Award (Here is
the talk video)
(Some press at USU)
- ARCS fellow for 2005 and 2006.
- Recipient of Deans scholarship for 2006.
- Recipient of Dissertation scholarship for 2007.
- CS dept nominee for the College outstanding graduate student award, 2007.
- Dr. Ullas Nambiar(Spring 2000-; Ph.D. Candidacy May 2004) Defended [Aug 15, 2005]! ( Thesis, Pictures). (Currently, Senior Vice President for AI and Product Management at Accenture (Previously, IBM IRL, Zensar etc.)
- Dr. Romeo Sanchez Nigenda(Fall 1999-Summer 2005; MCS & PhD). Defended successfully [Jul 18, 2005] (pics), (Thesis) Ph.D. (Currently on the faculty at UANL) (Was a Computer Scientist at USC Information Sciences Institute).
- Dr. Binh Minh Do
(Spring 99-Fall 2004), Ph.D. (Defended Aug 6,
2004. Thesis, Pictures!). (First Employment: PARC). Currently Senior Research Scientist at NASA AMES P&S group.
-
Recipient of the 2005 Dept of CSE Best PhD Award.
- ASU Nominee for ACM Distinguished Dissertation Award.
-
ICAPS 2010 Influential Paper Award (Honorable mention)
-
- Dr. Zaiqing Nie (Fall 99-Spring 2004) Ph.D. (Defended Mar 12, 2004! Thesis). (Currently Named Professor at Tsinghua University) (Previously at MSR Asia and Alibaba AI)
- Dr. Terry Zimmerman Ph.D. (Defended Oct 24, 2003! See Thesis and pics). (First Employment: Project Scientist, Robotics Institute, CMU)
- Dr. Xiaomin Li (Ph.D. 2001). (Currently at Oracle)
- Dr. Biplav Srivastava (M.S. 96; Ph.D. 2000 Thesis).(Defense pictures from 1/28/2000) (Currently: Faculty member at Univ of South Carolina (Previously at IBM IRL and IBM Research)
- Dr. Amol Dattatreya Mali (Summer 96-Spring 99).(Associate Professor; University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.)
- Dr. Laurie Ihrig (Ph.D. 96) (with Boeing)
Masters:
- Atharva
Gundawar. (Summer 2024 - Summer 2025; MS (Robotics & Autonomous
Systems). (Defended [Jul 2, 2025]).
- Off to TheAGI.Company (Seriously!)
- Kaya Stechly (Summer 2023-Spring 2025; MA Linguistics (!)) (Scholar)
- Karthik Valmeekam (Fall 2019 - Spring 2021; MS) (Defended M.S. Thesis [Apr 14, 2021])
- Niharika
Jain (Spring 2018-Spring 2020; FURI; 4+1)(Defended M.S. Thesis [Apr 29,
2020])
(Thesis)(Slides)
(Defense Video) (Off
to LinkedIn)
-
Outstanding M.S. Student, Computer Science (Spring 2021)
- Outstanding Undergraduate, Computer Science (Spring 2019)
- Aditya
Prasad Mishra (Spring 2018-Spring 2019; M.S.) Defended: [Apr 12, 2019]
- Sarath Sreedharan (Fall 2014-Summer 2016)(M.S.) Defended: [Jun 30, 2016] (Thesis)
(Presentation
Slides) ( Video of the Defense)
- Recipient of the 2017
CSE Outstanding Masters Student
award.
- Vignesh Narayanan (Spring 2014-)(M.S.) Defended: [Nov 10, 2015] (Thesis) (Presentation Slides) ( Video of the Defense)
- Anirudh Acharya (Spring 2014-)(M.S.) Successfully defended [Jul 20, 2015]) (off to Yahoo!)
- Tejas Mallapura Umamaheshwar (Fall 2014-Summer 2015)(M.S.) Successfully defended [Jun 16, 2015]) (off to Mathworks)
- Mi Jun (Spring 2013--2015)(M.S.; RIP; passed away April 2015 (InMemorium)
- Manikandan Vijayakumar (Fall 2013-Summer 2014). (M.S.) Successfully defended [Jul 7, 2014]. (Thesis) (Presentation Slides) (Off to American Express)
- Preeth Inder Singh (Summer 2012--)(MS) (defended [Sep 16, 2013]). ( Thesis, Slides and Presentation video) (Off to Bloomberg LP R&D)
- Srijith Ravikumar (Fall 2011--Spring 2013)(MS) (defended [Apr 18, 2013]). ( Thesis, Slides and Presentation video) (Off to Amazon)
- Manishkumar Jha(Summer 2010-Summer 2011)
(M.S.)
(defended [Aug 26, 2011])
( Thesis, Slides and Presentation video) (Off to Amazon)
- Recipient of the 2012
Dept of CSE/SCI Outstanding Masters Student
award.
- Rohit Raghunathan(Summer 2010-Summer 2011) (M.S.)(defended [Aug 19, 2011]) (Thesis, Slides and Presentation video) (Off to Amazon)
- Christopher White(Fall 2010-Summer 2011 ) (Integrated M.S.) defended [Jul 6, 2011] (Currently at Lockheed Martin)
- Sanil Salvi(Spring 2009-Fall 2010) (MCS)
- Nan Li (Primary advisor: Pat Langley) (2009)(MCS)
- Ravi Gummadi (co-advised with Pat Langley) (Fall 2007-09) (M.S.) defended [Aug 25, 2009] ( Thesis, slides. audio)) (Currently at Facebook)
- Anupam Khulbe (co-advised with Pat Langley)(Fal 2007-09) (M.S.) Defended [Aug 25, 2009] ( Thesis and slides. audio))(Currently at Amazon)
- Garrett Wolf (Spring
2006-Fall 2008) M.S.->Ph.D.->MCS
- Recipient of the 2009
Dept of CSE/SCI Outstanding Masters Student
award.
- Fulton Fellow for 2007-08
- Aravind Krishna Kalavagattu(Fall 2006-) M.S. Defended M.S. Thesis on [Jul 30, 2008]. (Thesis, slides. audio)) Off to Yahoo!
- Bhaumik Chokshi (Fall 2005-Sep 2007) M.S. Defended M.S. Thesis ( Thesis, slides. audio)) on [Sep 11, 2007]). Off to Microsoft Adwords.
- Hemal Khatri (Spring
2005-Summer 2006)
(Defended M.S. thesis (Thesis, slides.
audio))
on [Jul 7, 2006]). Off to MSN Search)
- Recipient of the 2007 Dept of CSE/SCI Outstanding MS Student
award.
(Pictures).
- Jianchun Fan (Fall 2003-) Ph.D.->M.S. (Defended M.S. thesis ( Thesis, slides . audio)) on [Apr 13, 2006]). Off to Amazon
- Thomas Hernandez (Spring
2003-Fall 2004)M.S. (Defended [Oct 21, 2004]!) Over at Amazon (Thesis)
- Recipient of the 2005 Dept of CSE Outstanding MS Student award.
- Sreelakshmi Vaddi MCS 2003.
- Xuan Long Nguyen (M.S. 2001 Thesis). (Faculty member in U. Michigan Statistics)
- Senthil Gnanaprakasam (M.S. 2001 )(Intel) (Thesis)
- Eric Lambrecht (Summer 96-Summer 98). M.S. Thesis (Founded several internet companies)
- Yong Qu (M.S. 95; a
run-of-the-mill millionaire at Microsoft)
- Eric Cohen (M.C.S. 93; with American Express or in Brazil)
- Dennis Chen (M.C.S. 93)
- Jeng-chin Chen (M.C.S. 92)
- Suresh Kumar Batchu (M.C.S. 95, Sun Microsystems->Google)
- Gopi Kumar Bulusu (M.C.S. 93; Head Honcho at Sankhya Systems, India)
- Suresh Katukam (M.S. 1995 Thesis; with CISCO)
Undergraduate Research Students:
- Denis Liu (Spring 2021--Spring 2024; FURI, UG research).
- Aditya Deotale (Spring 2017-Spring 2018; FURI).
- Top Poster Prize; FURI
Symposium; Spring 2018.
award.
- Daniel D'Souza (Spring 2015-)(URAP,FURI). Honors thesis, Spring 2017.
- Gabriel Saba (Spring 2016-) Honors thesis, Spring 2017.
- Cameron Dudley (Spring 2016-)
- Jake Merdich (Summer 2015; URAP)
- Nathaniel Mendoza (Summer 2014-Spring 2015)(URAP; FURI)
- Sumbhav Sethia (Summer 2013-Fall 2014)(URAP; FURI)
- Wyatt Tyree (Summer 2014-Fall 2014)(URAP)
- Paul Reesman (Summer 2013)(URAP)
- Matthew Mellott (Fall 2012--Spring 2013)(NSF REU, FURI Scholar)
- Nicole Ang (Fall 2012)(NSF REU)
- James Fiacco (Fall 2011) (FURI Scholar)
- Alex Wallace(Summer 2009-Spring 2010) (B.S. honors thesis. Thesis) (Currently at U. Arizona Med school)
- Chris White(Fall 2009-Spring 2010) (B.S. honors thesis)(Continued for Integrated M.S.)
- Alan Hogan (Spring 2008) (Undergraduate FURI Scholar)
- Kartik Talamadupula(Spring 2007-) (Bachelors; Dec 2007)(Continued for PhD)
- Wes Dyer (Spring 2004-) Undergraduate (honors thesis) (Thesis) (Currently at Microsoft).
High School Interns:
- Thomas Liu, McClintock High School. Summer 2011.
- Work on SAT phase transitions lead to Siemens Semifinalist recognition
Visitors etc.:
- Anil Murthy (Summer 2023-; Ph.D ) (Transferred)
- Matthew
Marquez (Fall 2022-Fall 2023 ; Ph.D.) (Left program)
- Dean's Fellow
- Daman Arora (Spring 2023-Summer 2023. Remote visitor; IIT Delhi)
- Andrew Dudley (Fall 2017-Spring 2018)
- Elan Markov (Fall 2016-Spring 2017)
- Vamsi Meduri(Spring 2015-Fall 2015) (Ph.D) (Shifted research groups)
- Vivek Dondeti, Fall 2015
- Taeyeong Choi, Fall 2015
- Divya Mokkapati, Spring 2015
- Chao Zhou Ph.D. Student from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. (2012-1013).
- Jing (Mavis) Shan, Ph.D. Student from Northeastern University, China. (2012-2013)
- Bram Ridder (Visitor from U. Strathclyde
Planning Group; Fall 2010)
- T.K. Satish Kumar (Visitor from Stanford KSL during Summer 2002)
- Romain Trinquart (Visitor from LAAS, France during Fall 2001)
- Jillian Nottingham (Fall 98-Fall 99), (Non-degree)
- David Copeland (Non-degree)
- Yannick Meiller (Non-degree; doing Ph.D. in Toulouse, France)
- Bilal Muzaffar (Summer 95-Spring 96)
- Xiuping Yang (Fall 95-Summer 96) (SAP)
Doctors in the Family:
- A doctor with a similar background ;-)
- My sister, a pediatrician, who is the only real doctor in the extended family
- My brother, an economist, who does real planning
- My sister-in-law a mathematical economist
- My sister-in-law, an engineer at Ford
- My brother-in-law, a mechanical engineering professor