Ph.D. Candidate
University of Maryland, College Park
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, advised by Prof. Dana Nau. I am doing research in the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. under the supervision of Dr. Mak Roberts. My research focus is on automated planning and reinforcement learning.
I earned a M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2023, and a B.S. degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 2020.
| 01.2026 | Presenting "Probabilistic Hierarchical Goal Network Planning with UCT" at AAAI'26, Singapore |
| 11.2025 | Published "Hierarchical Goal Networks for Probabilistic Planning: Preliminary Results" at HPlan'25, Melbourne, Australia |
| 11.2025 | Presented "Hierarchical Goal Decomposition for Probabilistic Planning" at the ICAPS'25 Doctoral Consortium, Melbourne, Australia |
| 10.2025 | Published "Landmark-assisted Monte Carlo Planning" at ECAI'25, Bologna, Italy Also presented at ICAPS'25 and HDSIP'25 |
| 02.2025 | Passed Ph.D. candidacy exam |
| 01.2025 | Published journal article "The Impact of Strategic Communication in Coopetitive Multiagent Settings" in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems |
| 06.2023 | Joined U.S. Naval Research Lab as research intern |
| 05.2023 | Earned M.S. degree from University of Maryland, College Park |
| 10.2022 | Joined Bloomberg L.P. Chief Technology Office as consultant |
| 05.2022 | Returned to Bloomberg L.P. Chief Technology Office as intern |
| 06.2021 | Joined Bloomberg L.P. Chief Technology Office as intern |
| 09.2020 | Joined University of Maryland, College Park Department of Computer Science as Ph.D. student |
| 05.2020 | Earned B.S. degree from University of Toronto |