Dr. Prashant Doshi, Director

Prashant Doshi | Professor

Prof. Prashant Doshi is a tenured Professor of Computer Science and directs the THINC lab. He is also a faculty member of the Institute for AI at UGA. He is the lead investigator of all research projects currently being performed in the THINC lab. He received his Ph.D. from the Dept. of Computer Science of the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2005, and his M.S. from the MCS Dept. of Drexel University, Philadelphia, in 2001.

Research Interests

His research interests lie in decision making and specifically in decision making under uncertainty in multiagent settings; in semantic Web and specifically in ontology alignment and learning; and in services-oriented computing and specifically in composing Web services and adapting the compositions. In 2011, he received UGA's Creative Research Medal, which acknowledges exceptional achievements in creativity and research. He is the recipient of the 2009 NSF CAREER award for his research on multiagent decision making. In 2009, he also received the Outstanding Faculty Research award from the CS department at UGA. He has published extensively in journals, conferences, and other forums in the fields of agents, AI, semantic Web and Web services. His research has led to publications in JAIR, JAAMAS, JWSR, JWS and other journals, and IJCAI, AAAI, AAMAS, WWW, ICWS and other conferences. He is an author of more than 80 publications. He has given numerous presentations in conferences and invited talks at research institutions and universities.