Current PhD students

• Peter Lamborn
• Naveen Parihar

Current MS students

• Anas Mahmoud

Graduated PhD students

• Rong Zhou. Received PhD August 2005 for thesis: Memory-Efficient Graph Search Applied to Multiple Sequence Alignment. Currently a member of the research staff at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA.
  

Graduated MS thesis students

• Osama Abu Omar. Received MS August 2007 for thesis: Artificial Neural Network Modeling of Flow Stress Response as a Function of Dislocation Microstructures. Currently a Software Engineer for Ecommerce Pioneer, in Roswell, GA.
• Gaurav Marwah. Received MS August 2005 for thesis: Algorithms for Stochastic Finite-Memory Control of Partially Observable Systems. Currently a CAD Engineer for Cypress Semiconductors, Inc in Starkville, MS.
• Simon Richards. Received MS December 2004 for thesis: Symbolic Bidirectional Breadth-First Heuristic Search. Currently working for Dynetics in Huntsville, AL.
  
• Rong Zhou. Received MS August 2001 for thesis: An improved grid-based approximation algorithm for partially observable Markov decision processes. Continued in PhD program - see above.
  
• Zhengzhu Feng. Received MS August 2000 for thesis: Dynamic programming for partially observable Markov decision processes using a factored representation. Earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2005. Currently working for Google in Mountain View, CA.
  

Graduated MS project students

• Fengjie Li. Received MS December 2006 for project: A search-based approach for solving constrained Markov decision processes. Enrolled in PhD program in Computer Science at Michigan State University.
  
• Xiaoying Tan. Received MS May 2004 for project: A k-group generalization of A* for multiple sequence alignment. Enrolled in MS program in Statistics at Mississippi State University.
  
• Zhijie Guan. Received MS December 2003 for project: Simultaneous multiple sequence alignment and phylogeny reconstruction. Enrolled in PhD program at University of Alabama at Birmingham.
  
• Ming Yan. Received MS August 2002 for project: Improving a stochastic finite-state controller for POMDPs by gradient ascent: Some experiments. Subsequently earned an MS in Statistics from the University of North Texas and is currently a Programmer/Analyst for Quintiles Inc. in Thousand Oaks, CA.
  
• Muhammed Tareque. Received MS August 2002 for project: Programming an autonomous robot to navigate an agricultural field. Enrolled in PhD program at University of Arkansas.
  
• Sean Taylor, Received MS August 2001 for project: Automatic adjustment of parameters in a knowledge-discovery system. Employed as Software Engineer for Northrop Grummen in Annapolis, Maryland.
  
• Guibin Qiao. Received MS December 2000 for project: Experiments with memory-bounded AO*. Employed as Senior Software Engineer for Hyperion Solutions Corporation, in Sunnyvale, CA.