Welcome to the University of Kentucky AI-Lab!

People

Research

Seminar

Courses

News

Recent Headlines

Seminar this spring will be at 2 PM on Wednesdays in the first floor seminar room at the Davis Marksbury Building.

6/2012 Nicholas Mattei, Judy Goldsmith, and Andrew Klapper win the Best Student Paper award at FLAIRS-25 for their paper "On the Complexity of Bribery and Manipulation in Tournaments with Uncertain Information." Link

6/18/2012 Elizabeth (Libby) Knouse is awarded a CRA-W Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU) program award for 2012--2013.

04/2012 Josiah Hanna received an honorable mention from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program. Link

04/2012 Tom Allen is awarded the Thaddeus B Curtz Memorial Scholarship Award, Dr. Miroslaw Truszczynski receives an award as this year's departmental ACM Outstanding Teacher, and Shaden Smith receives an award as the department's ACM Outstanding Graduating Senior. Link

03/2012 Nicholas Mattei is a recipient of The Graduate School's Myrle E. and Verle D. Nietzel Visiting Distinguished Faculty Award, honoring outstanding dissertations. Dr. Francesca Rossi of the University of Padova, Italy, is the Visiting Distinguished Faculty and will serve as the Graduate School's outside examiner during the dissertation defense. Link

02/2012 Joshua T. Guerin wins Provost's Award for Outstanding Teaching. Link 1 2 3

02/2012 Thomas Dodson wins Honorable Mention in Computing Research Association's (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. Link 1 2

02/2012 Joshua T. Guerin, Nicholas Mattei and Thomas Dodson win second place for poster in STEM Symposium. Link

09/2011 Judy Goldsmith gives TEDxHunterCCS talk on The Role of AI in our Future. Link

04/2011 Nicholas Mattei earns NSF funding to study at the University of Padova, Italy. Link

04/2011 Paul Mihail featured on uknow.uky.edu for multidisciplinary research. Link

03/2011 Nicholas Mattei finalist for the Provost's Award for Outstanding Teaching. Link

UK AI LabNews Archive

Selected Research Summary

University IRB

IRB Protocol number: 09-0751X4B: "Creation of a College Student Advising Disposition and Needs Survey Database for Future Research Purposes"

IRB Protocol number: 10-0544-X4B: "Decision-Theoretic Academic Advisor"

IRB Protocol number: 11-0243-X4B: "User validation of automated explanation system"

University of Kentucky IRB protocol no. 07-2381 response – Non-human subject classification

Selected Publications

On the Complexity of Bribery and Manipulation in Tournaments with Uncertain Information. Nicholas Mattei, Judy Goldsmith, and Andrew Klapper, Proc. FLAIRS 2012.

Bribery in voting over combinatorial domains is easy. N. Mattei, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, and K. B. Venable.

• In 12th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence a Mathematics (ISAIM-12) Special Session on Computational Social Choice.
• In Proc. of the 11th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents a Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012), 2012. Extended Abstract.

Topological Value Iteration Algorithms. Peng Dai and Mausam and Dan Weld and Judy Goldsmith,
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 42, pages 181--209, 2011

Science Fiction as an Introduction to AI Research. Judy Goldsmith and Nicholas Mattei, Proc. AAAI 2011, Educational Advances in AI Track, 2011.

A Natural Language Argumentation Interface for Explanation Generation in Markov Decision Processes. Thomas Dodson, Nicholas Mattei, and Judy Goldsmith

• Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT 2011)
• Proceedgins of the 6th Workshop on Explanation Aware Computing (EXACT 2011)

Constructing a Dynamic Bayes Net Model of Academic Advising. Joshua T. Guerin and Judy Goldsmith. Proceedings of the Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2011) Workshop on Bayesian Modeling Applications (BMAW 2011)

A Decision-Theoretic Academic Advisor: Extended Abstract. Joshua T. Guerin. In The Proceedings of the International Joint Converences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011)

Analysis of Undergraduate Teaching Evaluations in Computer Science. Joshua T. Guerin and Daniel Michler. In The Proceeding of The 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2011)

This Wiki is currently under the process of migration. We invite you to poke around while we update our site