Welcome

doshi Welcome to the website of THINC lab housed in the Computer Science department of the University of Georgia. The THINC lab was founded and is directed by Prof. Prashant Doshi since July 2010. It is a leading research laboratory in the department. Research in the lab is conducted in multiple areas including artificial intelligence, semantic Web and services-oriented computing. Learn more >>

About us

THINC lab is located in the Boyd Graduate Studies Research Center in the southern part of the UGA campus. Currently, more than 10 graduate students including doctoral and masters students are conducting research in the lab. Research conducted in the lab has been funded by grants from the Air Force and Army Research Offices, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and the industry.
Recent Publications

Yifeng Zeng, Prashant Doshi, "Exploiting Model Equivalences for Solving Interactive Dynamic Influence Diagrams", in JAIR, Vol 43, pp 211-255, 2012 [article]

P. Parikh, T. Minning et al. "A Semantic Problem Solving Environment for Integrative Parasite Research: Identification of Intervention Targets for Trypanosoma cruzi", in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 6(1): e1458, 2012 [article]

Uthaya Thayasivam and Prashant Doshi, "On the Utility of WordNet for Ontology Alignment: Is it Really Worth It?", Fifth IEEE ICSC, pp. 268-274, 2011 [article] [talk]
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Latest News

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(04/12/12) PI, Prashant Doshi, receives NSF REU supplemental funding for supporting undergraduate student researchers.

(12/27/11) THINC Lab researchers and collaborators have 2 full papers and 1 short paper accepted at AAMAS 2012.

(09/30/11) Prof. Jian Luo, head of the dept. of automation at Xiamen University, China, visits the THINC lab (see pic).
Researcher Spotlight

Qu Xia Qu is a third year doctoral student conducting her research in the THINC lab. She obtained a Masters in AI from the Institute of Artificial Intelligence at UGA. Xia investigates computational models of behavioral data collected from studies of human subjects performing strategic decision making in multiagent settings. She is currently applying interactive POMDPs appropriately augmented with cognitive models toward the modeling. She has published her research in AAMAS and has articles under review in IEEE SMC and other venues. Learn more >>