Update: I have successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis and will be joining the Computer Science department of the University of Georgia, from Fall 2005 as an Assistant Professor.

I was a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I pursued my doctoral thesis under the tutelage of Piotr Gmytrasiewicz. I have two somewhat correlated research foci:

My doctoral thesis research is in the area of optimal multiagent planning in partially observable multiagent settings, an important area of Artificial Intelligence. In this regard, I have extensively contributed to the ongoing development and analysis of the Interactive POMDP framework.

My second research focus is on service-oriented computing, in which specifically, I am interested in Web services based workflow composition. This research has arisen from my collaboration with Richard Goodwin, Rama Akkiraju, and Juhnyoung Lee, of the e-Business group at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center. My primary direction of research has been to cross-apply AI based decision-theoretic formalisms to automate the problem of workflow composition.

I am currently a recipient of the Univ. of Illinois at Chicago University Fellowship. I got my M.S. in Computer Science from Drexel University during which, I completed my Master's thesis under the supervision of Lloyd Greenwald.