Team

Group photo in Toronto in 2019 — Photo credit: Jaime Middleton

Current Students and Postdocs

Romina Abachi (with Amir-massoud Farahmand)
Parand Alizadeh Alamdari
Randy Hickey (with Fahiem Bacchus and Eldan Cohen)
Sheng Jia (with Jimmy Ba)
Sriram Ganapathi Subramanian (postdoctoral fellow with Pascal Poupart)
Toryn Klassen (postdoctoral fellow)
Andrew Wang (with Roger Grosse)
Lev McKinney (with Roger Grosse)
Kateryna Nekhomiazh
Keiran Paster (with Jimmy Ba)
Pouya Shati (with Eldan Cohen)
Andrew Li
Shalev Lifschitz (undergrad DCS)
Zizhao (Zoe) Chen (former EngSci undergrad)

Previous University of Toronto Students and Postdocs (incomplete)

Tomás Delgado (Visitor, winter 2024)
Harris Chan (late 2023, jointly with Jimmy Ba)
Pashootan Vaezipoor (with Fahiem Bacchus)
Andrew Wang (undergrad 2022–2023)
Lev McKinney (undergrad 2021–2023)
Maayan Shvo (PhD Student, Graduated 2023)
Alberto Camacho (PhD student, Graduated 2022, Google-X)
Leon Illanes (PhD student, Graduated 2022, Microsoft)
Rodrigo Toro Icarte (PhD student, Graduated 2022, Asst. Professor, Catholic University, Santiago, Chile)
Mathieu Tuli (with Scott Sanner) (MSc student, LG Research)
Artem Bolshakov (with Jakob Foerster)
Eldan Cohen (postdoc 2021)
Steven Shapiro (Research Scientist, 2017–2018)
Roy Luo (MSc student 2013–2016, jointly with Chris Beck)
Brent Mombourquette (MSc student 2013–2016)
Rick Valenzano (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015–2017)
Vaishak Belle (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011–2013, jointly with Hector Levesque, faculty University of Edinburgh)
Akshay Ganeshen (Research Associate since summer 2013)
Christian Muise (PhD student, Graduated 2013, on faculty Queen’s University, Postdoc MIT, previously U. Melbourne)
Torsten Hahmann (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013, faculty position Maine)
Marina Gueroussova (MSc student on leave, former undergraduate researcher)
Farah Juma (MSc student, Graduated 2012, Red Hat)
Daniel Kats (Undergraduate researcher, Summer/Fall 2013)
Nathan Robinson (Postdoctoral Fellow 2011–2013)
Shirin Sohrabi Araghi (PhD student, Graduated 2012, IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre)
Sammy Davis-Mendelow (MSc student, Graduated 2012, Trapeze)
Eric Hsu (PhD student, Graduated 2010, Silicon Valley start up)
Jorge Baier (PhD student, Graduated 2009, on faculty Catholic University, Santiago, Chile)
Letao Wang (MSc student, Graduated 2009, Microsoft)
Christian Fritz (PhD student, Graduated 2009, PARC following postdoc at USC)
Arnold Binas (MSc student, graduated January 2007, Google)
Meghyn Bienvenu (undergrad researcher, Phd Toulouse 2009, CNRS researcher Paris)
Natasha Prokoshyna (undergrad researcher, now working in the private sector)

Select Student Honours*

2024 Maayan Shvo – 2024 Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention. International Conference on AI Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2024).
2023 Alberto Camacho – 2023 Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2023)
2023 Rodrigo Toro Icarte – 2023 Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention. International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2023)
2015 Christian Muise – 2015 Best Doctoral Dissertation Award. International Conference on AI Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2015).
2012 Christian Muise – Winner 2012 Google Places Developer API Challenge
2011 Jorge Baier – 2011 Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention. International Conference on AI Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2011).
2011 Christian Muise – Top Team Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) (18 teams world-wide, Muise was Team Lead)
2011 Sammy Davis-Mendelow – Julie Payette NSERC Graduate Research Scholarship.
2010 Shirin Sohrabi Araghi – 2010 Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award. Ninth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2010)
2010 Farah Juma – Microsoft Research Graduate Women’s Scholarship. (First woman in Canada to win this prestigious award.)
2010 Christian Fritz – 2010 Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention. International Conference on AI Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2010).
2007 Christian Fritz – 2007 Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award. International Conference on AI Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2007).
2006 Jorge Baier – Distinguished Performance in Satisficing Planning (Qualitative Preferences Track). 2006 International Planning Competition (with Fahiem Bacchus and S. McIlraith)

* Students have received a number of other prestigious honours and scholarships not listed here.

Previous Student Collaborators/Supervisees

Eyal Amir
Ron Fadel
Dan Mandell
Bill MacCartney
Hongcheng Mi
Scott Sanner
Honglei Zeng