Research
I direct the Intelligent Agents Lab at UCF. For a good overview of the research that is done at IAL, see this article or this interview of me that appeared on the UCF Zenith television program (minute 11 onward).
My research is in the area of activity and plan recognition; my Ph.D. thesis was on multi-agent plan recognition and 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.
Graduate research applicants to my group should have prior experience in one of the following areas: multi-agent systems, machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, social media, games/simulations, or robotics.
Awards
- UCF Research Incentive Award (2013)
- CECS Dean's Research Professorship Award (2013)
- UCF Faculty Excellence for Doctoral Mentoring (Engineering and Sciences) (2012)
- CECS Distinguished Researcher (2011)
- Charles N. Millican Faculty Fellow (2010, 2012)
- NSF CAREER (2009)
- DARPA Computer Science Study Group (2009)
- AFOSR Young Investigator (2009)
- ONR Summer Faculty Fellow (2008)
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)
- Fall 2009: Introduction to Robotics (EGN 3060C)
- Spring 2010: Intelligent Systems (CAP6671)
- Fall 2010: Introduction to Robotics (EGN 3060C)
- Spring 2011: Intelligent Systems (CAP6671)
- Fall 2011: Introduction to Robotics (EGN 3060C)
- Spring 2012: Intelligent Systems (CAP6671)
- Fall 2012: Introduction to Robotics (EGN 3060C)
Office Hours (Fall 2012)
- MW 10:00-11:30am
Service
I am co-chairing the AAAI symposium series starting in 2012 and will be the general chair of AIIDE 2013.- 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, AI Video Competition (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
- 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)
- Doctoral Mentoring Co-Chair, AAMAS 2010
- Program Committee, Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS 2010, 2011, 2012)
- Program Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence in Games (CIG 2010)
- Program Committee, Conference on Foundations of Digital Games (FDG 2010)
- Program Committee, IAT 2010)
- Co-Organizer, AAAI 2010 Workshop on Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition
- Co-Organizer, AAAI Fall Symposium on Proactive Assistant Agents, PAA 2010
- Associate Editor, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2010)
- Program Committee, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS 2011)
- Program Committee, ICAPS 2011 Workshop on Goal, Activity, and Plan Recognition
- Program Committee, International Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI 2011)
- Program Committee, AI and Interactive Entertainment (AIIDE 2011)
- Co-Organizer, AAAI 2011 Workshop on Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition
- Program Committee, 2011 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2011)
- Program Committee, 2011 International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AMI 2011)
- Program Committee, International Conference for Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS 2012)
- Program Committee, Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2012)
- Program Committee, ASE/IEEE International Conference of Social Computing (SocialCom 2012)
- Program Committee, 15th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2012)
- Program Committee, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2012)
- Program Committee, ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Informatics (Social Informatics 2012)
- Program Committee, IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Games (CIG 2012)
- Program Committee, Ubicomp 2012 Workshop on Situation, Activity, and Goal Awareness (SAGAware2012)
- Program Chair, AAAI Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2012)
- Senior Program Committee, Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2013)
- Program Committee, International Conference for Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (Main and Demo Tracks) (AAMAS 2013)
- Organizing Committee, AAMAS Workshop on Multiagent Interaction Networks (MAIN 2013)
- Program Committee, ASE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2013)
- Organizing Committee, AAAI Workshop on Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition (PAIR 2013)
- 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 and have recently completed my 100th dive. My husband (and diving buddy), Dr. Rahul Sukthankar, is a researcher in computer vision at Google Research.
Contact
Dr. Gita Sukthankar
University of Central Florida
Department of EECS (CS)
Mail: 4000 Central Florida Blvd
Orlando, FL, 32816-2362
Physical: 4328 Scorpius St.
Orlando, FL, 32816-2362
Tel: 407-823-4305
Google Voice: 407-536-8425
Dept Fax: 407-823-2762
Email: gitars at eecs.ucf.edu