Welcome!
I am a Ph.D. candidate at the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, with an anticipated graduation date of Spring 2010. I work at the Mobile Robot Laboratory headed by Ronald Arkin, who is my advisor.
My research area is robotics, focusing on learning, coordination, and knowledge in heterogeneous robot teams. This research spans robotics, machine learning, distributed sensing, and computer vision. My thesis focuses on using information theoretic metrics to allow robots that differ perceptually to build model of their similarities and differences to facilitate knowledge sharing.
My work tends to have a machine learning flavor, applied to making adaptive robots. In the past, I have worked on projects varying from Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) for adapting parameters of behavior-based systems to Continuous and Embedded Learning that applies genetic algorithms to the problem of adaptation to robot team properties. Currently I am working on cooperation and knowledge sharing in heterogeneous robot teams.