Shirin Sohrabi

Contact Information

Pratt Building, Room 263 (KR lab)

Mail address:
Department of Computer Science
Graduate Student
Room 3302
10 King's College Road
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 3G4, CANADA

Email: shirin[at]cs[dot]utoronto[dot]ca

I have graduated! I joined IBM Research in October 2012.

PhD Candidate under supervision of Sheila McIlraith (AAAI Fellow)
Knowledge Representation Group
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto

Research

My interests include :

Modeling and reasoning about Semantic Web Services, in particular web service discovery, composition, and monitoring
Planning with preferences and temporally extended goals
Preference-based planning in Hierarchical Task Networks
Characterization of diagnosis of discrete dynamical systems, and its relationship to planning

Publications

Honors and Awards

First place in International Planning Competition (IPC) in the optimal track, 2018
Runner-up for the best demo paper at the IJCAI, 2018
Won best system demonstration award at the 27th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2017
Outstanding reviewer award at the 26th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2016
Won runner up award in the system demo competition at the 26th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2016
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Scholarships (PGS), 2011-2012
Best Doctoral Consortium Paper at the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-10), Shanghai, China, Nov 2010
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Scholarships (PGS), 2010-2011
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Scholarships (PGS), 2009-2010
Wolfond Fellowship, University of Toronto, 2008-2009
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Scholarships (PGS), 2007-2008
Ontario Graduate Scholarship Program (OGS), 2006-2007
NSERC - Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA), 2005 and 2006
CRA-W Canadian Distributed Mentor Project, 2005
Victoria Reunion Award for Academic Achievement, University of Toronto, 2004-2006
Dean's List for Academic Achievement, University of Toronto, 2004-2006

Professional Services

ICAPS Inclusion Chair 2021 - present

ICAPS Executive Council 2020 - present

Co-chair, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) Journal Track, 2022

Senior Program Committee, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022

Senior Program Committee, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2018, 2022

Senior Program Committee, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2019, 2021, 2022

Program Committee, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) - Novel Applications Track, 2016, 2017, 2022

Program Committee, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) System Demo Track, 2021, 2022

Program Committee, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Doctoral Consortium, 2021

Program Committee, International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR), 2021

Co-chair, Workshop on Planning for Financial Services (FinPlan) at ICAPS, 2021

Program Committee, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2018, 2021

Program Co-chair, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2020

Reviewer, Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ), 2019, 2020

Co-chair, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) - Novel Application Track, 2018, 2019

Reviewer , Journal of Artificial Intelligence (JAIR), 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

System Demonstration Track Chair, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2018

Program Committee, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

Co-chair, AAAI 2017 Workshop - Human-Aware Artificial Intelligence (HAAI), 2017

Co-chair, International Scheduling and Planning Applications woRKshop (SPARK), 2016, 2017

Co-chair, IJCAI 2016 Workshop - Closing the Cognitive Loop: Third Workshop on Knowledge, Data, and Systems for Cognitive Computing (CogComp), 2016

Reviewer , Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), 2015

Program Committee, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2013, 2014

Program Committee, International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2014

Reviewer, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence journal, 2014

Program Committee, The AAAI-12 Workshop on Problem Solving using Classical Planners (CP4PS), 2012

External Reviewer, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2011

External Reviewer, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2011

Co-organizer, DCS Symposium on Trends in Computing (TIC), held at the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada, May 2010

External Reviewer, North East Student Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence (NESCAI), 2010

External Reviewer, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2010

External Reviewer, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2009

External Reviewer, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2009

Teaching Assistant