Bart Selman

Bart Selman is an associate professor of computer science at Cornell University. He previously was at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He has received four best paper awards at the American and Canadian national artificial intelligence conferences, and at the international conference on knowledge representation. He received the Stephen Miles Excellence in Teaching Award and a Cornell Outstanding Educator Award. He holds an NSF Career Award and is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (elected in ‘01) and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (elected in ‘02).

Research Fields
• Efficient reasoning procedures
• Stochastic search methods
• Knowledge compilation
• Planning
• Connections between Computer Science and Physics

Courses
• Advanced Artificial Intelligence

Selected Publications
• Towards Efficient Sampling: Exploiting Random Walk Strategies
• A General Framework for Knowledge Compilation.
• Learning Declarative Control Rules for Constraint-Based Planning


Homepage: www.cs.cornell.edu/selman


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