Current Members
Faculty
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Dana Nau | Co-Director |
Dana Nau is a Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science and the Institute for Systems Research. He is also an affiliate professor in the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Nau does research in artificial intelligence, especially automated planning and game theory. He co-directs the Laboratory for Computational Cultural Dynamics with V.S. Subrahmanian.
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V.S. Subrahmanian | Co-Director |
V.S. Subrahmanian is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) at the University of Maryland.
His work in AI spans rule-based expert systems and logic programs, nonmonotonic reasoning, probabilistic reasoning, temporal reasoning, hybrid reasoning, and software agents. His work in databases focuses on heterogeneous database integration and interoperability, logic databases, probabilistic databases, and multimedia databases. In the last few years, Dr. Subrahmanian has been studying how to reason about massive collections of multilingual document collections and mine them for sentiment/opinion information as well as how to mine ontologies directly from text. He and his lab, LCCD, have been applying this work to the study of foreign cultures and terrorist groups with a view to automatically extracting data about a group’s organization and activities and mining this information in order to build stochastic behavioral models of the group which, in turn, can be used to come up with forecasts of future behavior of the group.
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Arie Kruglanski |
Arie Kruglanski's research concerns the formation of attitudes and beliefs as they are impacted by cognitive and motivational variables. From this perspective, he has been carrying out research in the domains of social cognition, the psychology of goals and goal pursuit, persuasion, and social judgment processes, group formation, intergroup relations, terrorism and the psychology of culture.
| Personal Website: | http://www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/main/people/profiles/akruglanski.html |
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Gary Ackerman |
Gary Ackerman is Assistant Director for Research and Communication of START and is responsible for managing START research projects, exploring new avenues for research, and establishing collaborative research relationships with other institutions.
| Personal Website: | http://www.start.umd.edu/start/ |
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Gary LaFree |
Gary LaFree is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland.
| Personal Website: | http://www.ccjs.umd.edu/Faculty/faculty.asp?p=26 |
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John Steinbruner |
John D. Steinbruner is Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland and Director of the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM). His work has focused on issues of international security and related problems of international policy.
| Personal Website: | http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/facstaff/faculty/Steinbruner.html |
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Louiqa Raschid |
Louiqa Raschid is a professor in the Smith School of Business, UMIACS, Department of Computer Science, and Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
She has a diversity of research interests focused around issues of information (data and knowledge) management, semantics and data integration, and performance. Dr. Raschid investigates applications in the life sciences, health information systems, humanitarian IT applications and Grid computing. Her research utilizes a variety of methodologies and reference sub-areas such as optimization, large scale simulation using trace data, semantics and logic based reasoning, and data analysis techniques.
| Personal Website: | http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~louiqa/ |
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Michael Fu |
Michael Fu is the Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Management Science in the Robert H. Smith School of Business. His research interests are: Simulation modeling and analysis, production/inventory control, applied probability, and queueing theory; stochastic derivative estimation, simulation optimization of discrete-event systems, Markov decision processes; with application to supply chain management and financial engineering.
| Personal Website: | http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/faculty/mfu/fu.htm |
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Michele Gelfand |
Michele Gelfand is professor of Organizational psychology at University of Maryland, College Park. Her research interests include cross-cultural social/organizational psychology; cultural influences on conflict, negotiation, justice, revenge, and leadership; discrimination and sexual harassment; and theory and method in assessing aspects of culture (individualism-collectivism; cultural tightness-looseness).
| Personal Website: | http://www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/gelfand/ |
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Nick Roussopoulos |
Nick Roussopoulos is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and UMIACS. His research interests include: Data Warehousing and OLAP applications, Spatio-temporal Indexing of aggregate data, Geographic Information Systems, Satellite Wireless and Terrestrial Network Data Dissemination, Integrated Network Management, Client-Server Database Architectures, High Performance Database Systems, Distributed Database Systems, and Parallel database systems with Scalable I/O.
| Personal Website: | http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nick/ |
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Paul Hanges |
Paul Hanges is the Associate Chair & Director of Graduate Studies of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland. He is interested in cross-cultural leadership, personnel selection, adverse impact, and fairness, and healthy organization theory.
| Personal Website: | http://www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/hanges/ |
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Romain Murenzi |
Romain Murenzi holds a PhD in Physics from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. He was appointed Chair and Professor of the Department of Physics at Clark Atlanta University, USA. His major research interests include multidimensional continuous wavelet and its applications. In 2001, he was appointed Minister of Education, Science, Technology and Scientific Research and from March 2006 as Minister in President’s Office in Charge of Science and Technology. In 2007 he was given the responsibility of ICT. He is committed to the expansion and modernisation of the Rwanda education system and the aspiration for knowledge-based, technology-led economy by 2020. He serves on the Board of Directors of Development Gateway Foundation and Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, as Vice President for Africa, TWAS and Advisory Board, Scientists Without Borders.
| Personal Website: | http://romainmurenzi.blogspot.com/ |
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Sarit Kraus |
Sarit Kraus is Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and Professor of Computer Science in the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Shahmahmood Miakhel |
Shahmahmood Miakhel is the Former Minister of the Interior in Afghanistan (2003-2005) and the Governance Advisor of the Institutional Development/Governance Department of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.
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Shibley Telhami |
Shibley Telhami is the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, College Park, and non-resident senior fellow at the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution. Before coming to the University of Maryland, he taught at several universities, including Cornell University, the Ohio State University, the University of Southern California, Princeton University, Columbia University, Swarthmore College, and the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his doctorate in political science.
His research interests include comparative politics and international relations.
| Personal Website: | http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/telhami/ |
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Ugur Kuter |
Ugur Kuter's research interests are on almost all aspects of Artificial Intelligence, most particularly in Automated Planning and Learning, Reasoning under Uncertainty and Time, Social Decision Making, Semantic Web Services, and Web-Based Social Networks.
| Personal Website: | http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ukuter/ |
| Projects: | PURSUIT : Pursuit and Evasion in Imperfect-Information Environments |
| SOCIAL : Social Game Theory | |
| Publications: | Planning for interactions among autonomous agents |
Staff, Postdocs and Students
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Aaron Mannes |
I am a researcher at LCCD where I specialize in terrorism and international affairs. I am also a doctoral student at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy where I am studying national security process.
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Brandon Wilson |
Brandon Wilson is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is studying Computer Science, with a specific interest in Artificial Intelligence.
| Personal Website: | http://www.cs.umd.edu/~bswilson/ |
| Projects: | Lookahead : Lookahead Strategies in Games |
| MULTI : Multi-Player Games | |
| Publications: | Error minimizing minimax: Avoiding search pathology in game trees |
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Brittany Schuetzle |
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Chanhyun Kang |
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Cristian Molinaro |
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Damon Earp |
Damon has a B.S. in Computer Science from University of Maryland and a B.A. in Graphic Design from West Virginia Wesleyan College. He is a Research Programmer for the lab creating applications, demos and utilities.
| Personal Website: | http://www.damonearp.com |
| Projects: | STOP : SOMA Terror Organization Portal |
| SCARE : Spatio-Cultural Abductive Reasoning Engine | |
| TREX & ACE : The RDF Extractor & Automatic Coding Engine | |
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Dan LaRocque |
Dan LaRocque has a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland. He assists the lab in and software development and computing infrastructure development.
| Projects: | STOP : SOMA Terror Organization Portal |
| SCARE : Spatio-Cultural Abductive Reasoning Engine | |
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Eric Raboin |
Eric Raboin is a Ph.D. candidate advised by Dana Nau.
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Inon Zuckerman |
Inon Zuckerman recently finished his Ph.D. under the joint supervision of Prof. Sarit Kraus from Bar-Ilan university and Prof. Jeffrey Rosenschein from the Hebrew University. His research interests include: Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agents Systems, BDI Architectures, Game-Playing, Agent-Human Interactions, Game-Theory, Evolution.
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Jana Shakarian |
Jana Shakarian is a faculty researcher at the LCCD. She has a M.A. in Anthropology and Sociology from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.
| Projects: | LeT : Analyzing Lashkar-e-Taiba |
| Publications: | A Computationally-Enabled Analysis of Lashkar-e-Taiba Attacks in Jammu & Kashmir |
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Kan-Leung Cheng |
Since 2006, Kan-Leung Cheng has been a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science.
| Personal Website: | http://www.cs.umd.edu/~klcheng/ |
| Projects: | NONZERO : Opponent Modeling and Strategy Synthesis in Non-zero-sum Games |
| SOCIAL : Social Game Theory | |
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Margo Nagel |
Margo is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland, holding a B.A. in Government & Politics and a minor in Arabic Studies.
| Publications: | Abductive Inference for Combat: Using SCARE-S2 to Find High-Value Targets in Afghanistan |
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Patrick Roos |
Patrick Roos is a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland. His advisor is Dana Nau. His general research interests reside in the broad field of Artificial Intelligence. More specific areas of interest include evolutionary computation, game theory, machine learning, and knowledge discovery, with a particular interest in interdisciplinary applications of these fields in the social sciences and humanities.
| Personal Website: | http://www.cs.umd.edu/~roos/ |
| Projects: | MULTI : Multi-Player Games |
| SOCIAL : Social Game Theory | |
| Publications: | Conditionally risky behavior vs expected value maximization in evolutionary games |
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Rami Puzis |
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Ryan Carr |
Ryan Carr is a Ph.D. candidate advised by Dana Nau.
Past Members
Staff, Postdocs and Students
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AS
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Amy Sliva |
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AP
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Austin Parker |
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Diego Reforgiato |
Since March of 2008, Diego has been a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Computer Science and Telecommunications Engineering (DIIT) working with Professor Alfio Lombardo on peer-to-peer video transmission. Prior to this, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the LCCD under V.S. Subrahmanian.
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Gerardo Simari |
This is Gerardo's description
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John Dickerson |
John Dickerson is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland's Computer Science and Mathematics programs. He held a two-year research position under V.S. Subrahmanian, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence at Carnegie Mellon University under Tuomas Sandholm. His research interests include agent-based modeling, predictive modeling, serious games, and game theory. In a past life, he worked in computer graphics research, a talent that still finds use in his work at LCCD.
| Personal Website: | http://www.gannon-house.com |