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Gita Sukthankar

Gita Sukthankar

Gita Sukthankar Assistant Professor


Contact Info:
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL 32816-2362

E-Mail: gitars@eecs.ucf.edu
Office: HEC-232
Office Phone: (407) 823-4305
Dept. Fax: (407) 823-5419
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Areas of Interest:
multi-agent systems, machine learning, robotics

Biography:
Dr. Gita Sukthankar received her Ph.D.(2007) from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon, an M.S. in Robotics (CMU), and an A.B. in psychology from Princeton University. From 2000-2003, she worked as a researcher at Compaq Research/HP Labs (CRL) in the handheld computing group. In 2009, Dr.Sukthankar was selected for an Air Force Young Investigator award, the DARPA Computer Science Study Panel, and an NSF CAREER award. She is the co-organizer of the AAAI workshop series on Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition. At UCF, she directs the Intelligent Agents Lab which focuses on three key aspects of social computational systems: 1) recognizing and predicting human intention 2) cooperation/teamwork 3) modeling group dynamics.