Nilufer Onder

Address:
Nilufer Onder
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Michigan Technological University
309 Rekhi Hall
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, MI 49931-1295

Voice: (+1) 906 487 1641
Fax: (+1) 906 487 2283
E-mail: My e-mail address is my first name followed by @mtu.edu
  (my first name starts with N)

Schedule: Click here for my schedule

Research

Research Area

Artificial intelligence
   Planning
Planning under uncertainty
    Probabilistic planning
    Temporal Planning
   Decision making under uncertainty
   Markov Decision Processes (MDPs)
   Concurrent MDPs

Publications

(2006) J. N. Foss and N. Onder. A Hill-Climbing Approach to Planning with Temporal Uncertainty, Proc. 19th Intl. Florida AI Research (FLAIRS) Conference. [.pdf]
(2006) N. Onder, G.C.Whelan, and L. Li. Engineering a Conformant Probabilistic Planner, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), Vol. 25, pp. 1-15. [.ps] [.pdf] [.html]
(2005) J. N. Foss, N. Onder. Generating Temporally Contingent Plans, IJCAI 2005 Workshop on Planning and Learning in A Priori Unknown or Dynamic Domains, pp. 62-68, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2005. [.ps] [.pdf]
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Students

Current

G. Ryan Anderson (CS M.Sc.)
Janae Foss (CS Ph.D.)
Ping Huo (CS&E Ph.D.)
Li Li (CS Ph.D.)
Matt Watkins (CS M.Sc.)

Past

Hui Meen Nyew (CS M.Sc., 2006)
Virginia Bluth (CS M.Sc., 2005)
Garrett Whelan (CS M.Sc., 2004)

Projects

Our probabilistic planner Probapop will be released in the near future.

Teaching

Fall 2006

CS 5811: Advanced Artificial Intelligence (graduate)
CS 4311: Introduction to Computation Theory

Spring 2007

CS 4811: Artificial Intelligence (undergraduate)

Qualifiers

Artificial Intelligence

Spring 2007 information

Theory of Computation

Spring 2007 information ( .pdf )

University committees

Alternate Senator for the CS department (2002-present)
Senate Curricular Policy Committee (2002-2005)
Senate Research Policy Committee (2005-present)
Childcare Board (2000-present)
Computer Science Department Undergraduate Committee (2001-present)

Information

Education

B.Sc. (1985), Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University
M.Sc. (1988), Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University
Ph.D. (1999), Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh

Biography

Nilufer Onder received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees ...

About me

I grew up in a nice town ...