Alex Fukunaga, Ph.D.
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Professor, Department of General Systems Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo. Also, cooperating faculty in the Graduate Program on Environmental Sciences (GPES)

Previous Positions:

  • Associate Professor, Department of General Systems Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo.
  • 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

  • Please see the updated list of my papers at my lab page
  • My Google Scholar Page
  • My DBLP Entry


Professional Service (recent / partial list)

  • Editorial Board, Artificial Intelligence
  • Council Member, Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS) (2017-2022)
  • Co-Chair, 10th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (2017, Pittsburgh)

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.

Other Info

My Erdos number is 4 (P. Erdos -> D.J. Kleitman -> T.C. Hu -> A.B. Kahng -> A. Fukunaga)

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