Research

My research is in the area of activity and plan recognition; my Ph.D. thesis focused on the problem of recognizing tactical team plans from spatio-temporal traces of military teams in urban settings. I am also interested in looking at activity/plan recognition in the following domains:

adversarial games
assistive technologies
human-robot interactions
cooperation in multi-agent systems
software support for human teams

My area of expertise is AI and machine learning, primarily in the context of multi-agent and multi-robot systems.

Teaching

Fall 2007: Plan, Activity and Intent Recognition (CAP6938)
Spring 2008: Intelligent Systems (CAP6671)
Fall 2008: Introduction to Robotics (EGN 3060C)
Spring 2009: Intelligent Systems (CAP6671)

Office Hours (Spring 2009)

W 1-4pm

Service

Program Committee, International Conference for Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS 2007)
Program Committee, AAAI Workshop on Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition (PAIR 2007)
Organizing Committee, Opportunities for Undergraduate Research in Computer Science (OURCS 2007)
Program Committee, International Conference for Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems, Special Multi-Robot Track (AAMAS 2008)
Program Committee, IJCAI-09 and AAAI-08 Video Competition
Program Committee, Conference on Foundation for Digital Games (FDG 2009)
Publication Chair, Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents (PRIMA 2009)
Co-Organizer, IJCAI 2009 Workshop on Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition
Program Committee, 2009 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2009)
Program Committee, FLAIRS 2010 (Games and Entertainment Track)
Reviewer, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS)

Biography

In fall 2007, I joined the faculty at University of Central Florida, Orlando as an assistant professor in computer science. I received my Ph.D. from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon, an M.S. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon, and an A.B. in psychology from Princeton University. Between my masters and Ph.D., I worked as a researcher at Compaq Research/HP Labs (CRL) in the handheld computing group. Outside of work, I practice martial arts and have a shodan (1st degree black belt) in Shotokan Karate. I also have an advanced PADI diver certification that I hope to use more by relocating to Florida. My husband (and diving buddy), Dr. Rahul Sukthankar, is a researcher in computer vision at Intel Research.

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