Contact:
Associate Professor, Department of General Systems Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo. Also, cooperating faculty in the new Graduate Program on Environmental Sciences (GPES)
Previous Positions:
- Assistant Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology Global Edge Institute
- Senior Member, NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Artificial Intelligence Group. I worked on many projects, including:
- ASPEN automated planning/system for spacecraft autonomy. This was the basis of the automated planner which controls the NASA Earth Observing-1 satellite.
- Cloud and dust devil detection algorithms for the Spirit and Opportunity Mars Exploration Rovers. These algorithms were uploaded to the rovers, as part of a software update.
- Spacecraft design optimization, evolvable hardware
- Senior Developer, Blue Pumpkin Software (now part of Verint Systems), where I worked on a widely used staff scheduling system
Education:
- University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science (advisor: Prof. Richard Korf).
- Harvard University, A.B. in Computer Science
Research Interests
Artificial Intelligence, Heuristic Search, Planning, Constraint Programming, Parallel Programming, Combinatorial Optimization, Metaheuristics, Evolutionary Computation, Autonomous Robotics, and Spacecraft Autonomy.
Publications
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Please see
the updated list of my papers at my lab page - My Google Scholar Page
- My DBLP Entry
Professional Service (recent / partial list)
Program Committee Member (partial list):
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI): Program Committee:2009-2013, Senior Program Committee:2016
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): 2006-2012,2014-2017
- International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS): 2010-2012,2014-2017
- Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS): 2012-2017
- Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO): 1999-2002, 2007-2013
- International Conference on Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research Techniques in Constraint Programming (CPAIOR): 2013
- International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2011,2012
- International Lisp Conference (ILC): 2010, 2012
- AAAI-2015 Workshop on Planning, Search, and Optimization (PlanSOpt-15)
Software
- CL-MPI - A portable, Common Lisp binding for the Message Pasing Interface (MPI). Enables message-passing based parallel Common Lisp programming on either a cluster or a single multi-core machine.