Sylvie Thiébaux

40.jpg (6438 bytes) Associate Professor
Diagnosis, Planning, & Optimisation Group
Computer Sciences Laboratory
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200, Australia

Principal Research Scientist
Canberra Research Laboratory
National ICT Australia

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Telephone: (+61) 2 6125 8678
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Research Interests

My interests are in artificial intelligence, particularly planning, model-based diagnosis, search, and reasoning under uncertainty. My current research focuses on developing planning and diagnosis techniques that can handle larger and more complex problems featuring uncertainty, time, and coordination among multiple entities. Potential applications of these techniques include project planning, autonomous robotics, intelligent transport, manufacturing, power distribution, and network management.

I lead the SuperCom project: model-based Supervision of Composite systems. The project has developed a spectrum of powerful methods for monitoring and diagnosing distributed dynamic systems. These methods rely on decentralised reasoning, symbolic representations, and model compilation.

I also participate in DPOLP: Dynamic Planning, Optimisation and Learning Project. DPOLP has made a number of significant contributions to building tools for planning with time and uncertainty, and to bridging the gap between Petri nets analysis, planning/heuristic search in artificial intelligence, and statistical machine learning.

Biography

My educational background includes a Diplôme d'Ingénieur from National Institute of Applied Sciences in 1991, a M.Sc. from Florida Tech in 1992, and a Ph.D. from University of Rennes in 1995, all in Computer Science. I have held appointments with INRIA and CSIRO. In July 2001, I joined the Computer Sciences Laboratory at the Australian National University. Since July 2003, I have been seconded to National ICT Australia.

Professional Activities

I am or was involved in the following


Student Research Projects

Don't hesitate to contact us if you are contemplating doing your honours project, a PhD, or a summer scholarship project in the fields of diagnosis, planning, or search/optimisation. The description of the research projects in Artificial Intelligence the group will be offering in 2008 is
here.

The slides of the presentation I gave in 2006 about CSL and NICTA to prospective honours students in DCS can be found there.


Students

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Papers

Planning

Search

Diagnosis

Robotics

Intelligent Transport Systems

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