"Better theories are achieved by those who do not worship old ones." - Wendell Johnson

I am interested in applications of automated planning techniques for real world situations. In particular, my focus is in planning with resource and temporal constraints, over-subscription and preference planning, multi-objective planning, planning with incomplete models (i.e., "model lite" planning) and the interleaving of planning and execution. My main focus is in developing heuristics and methodologies for expanding state-of-the-art academic planning technologies to these ends... one step at a time.  


Internship:

Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
Summer 2006
Under the supervision of Minh Do and Wheeler Ruml
 

Research Work:

Research Associate, Arizona State University
Nov 2005-present
Under the supervision of Subbarao Kambhampati
 
Member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Cognitive Adaptive Systems
Jan 2007-present
Visiting Researcher, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
Aug 2006-Aug 2008

Planning Competition:

YochanPS: PDDL3 Simple Preferences as Partial Satisfaction Planning
J. Benton, Subbarao Kambhampati, Minh B. Do
Won "Distinguished Performance" for Simple Preferences track of the 5th International Planning Competition, 2006