Lin Zhu

EE Building #513
School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1285

office: EE 331A
(765) 494-0729 (office)
(765) 494-6440 (fax)


I am currently a Ph.D student in Computer Engineering at Purdue University. I work with Prof. Robert Givan. My research interest is mainly on artificial intelligence, with the emphasis on automated planning and scheduling, and machine learning. I am currently working on automatically reusable domain knowledge. I am developing algorithms that discover commonly occurring sub-problems (such as route planning and resource scheduling) and leverage dedicated algorithms on those problems, with the goal to scale-up general-purpose planners to solve real-world complex problems. I also worked on heuristic search, reinforcement learning, tree decomposition, sub-goal interaction, landmark discovering, learning to planning, and link analysis. I am a member of the Relations AI Group organized by Prof. Robert Givan. I also actively participate in the Statistical Machine Learning Reading Seminar organized by Prof. Guy Lebanon. The Ph.D committee members of mine include Professors Robert Givan, Fahiem Bacchus, Jeffrey Siskind, and Avi Kak. I got my Bachelor's Degree in EE from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2000.

Lin Zhu Publications

Publications

``Planning Heuristics for Conjunctive and Disjunctive Goals.''
by Lin Zhu, December 20 2005.
Prelim Report.
Details. Download: PDF, slides (PDF).

``Simultaneous Heuristic Search for Conjunctive Subgoals.''
by Lin Zhu and Robert Givan.
In Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2005), (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA), July 9-13 2005, pp. 1235-1241.
Details. Download: PDF, PostScript, slides (PDF).

``Heuristic Planning via Roadmap Deduction.''
by Lin Zhu and Robert Givan.
In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-2004) Doctoral Consortium, (Whistler, Canada), June 2004.
Details. Download: PDF, PostScript, slides (PostScript).

``Heuristic Planning via Roadmap Deduction.''
by Lin Zhu and Robert Givan.
In Booklet of the Fourth International Planning Competition (IPC-4), (Whistler, Canada), June 2004, pp. 64-66.
Details. Download: PDF.

``Landmark Extraction via Planning Graph Propagation.''
by Lin Zhu and Robert Givan.
In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-2003) Doctoral Consortium, (Trento, Italy), June 2003.
Details. Download: PDF, PostScript.

Talks

``Hubs, Authorities, and PageRank.''
by Lin Zhu.
In Statistical Machine Learning Reading Seminar, March 2 2006.
Download: slides (PDF).

``Simultaneous Heuristic Search for Conjunctive Subgoals.''
by Lin Zhu.
In ECE Graduate Seminar, April 22 2005.
Download: slides (PDF).

Lin Zhu's Resources

Resources

AI Planning and Learning

Research and Teaching

Programming Languages [Objective Caml (OCaml)] [Scheme (Bigloo/Chicken) / LISP] [Python] [Perl] [C] [C++] [Java] [Haskell] [Prolog] [Matlab] [R / S]

Wonderful Tools [LaTeX] [Emacs] ([Planner] [Muse] [AUCTeX] [Tuareg])] [Linux] ([Ubuntu]) [VNC] [screen] [Ratpoison] [HEVEA]

Jobs [AAAI] [CRA] [ACM] [IEEE] [Lispjobs] [Franz]

Friends [Xiaomin Chen] [Xiaogang Dong] [Long Fei] [Xiaoli Zhang Fern] [Wenjun Gu] [Jing Guo] [Liang Huang] [Lei Li] [Chenxi Lin] [Jiangchuan Liu] [Zhaozhong Ni] [Ruoming Pang] [Bin Tian] [Lexing Ying] [Hao Yuan] [Xi Zhang] [Minfeng Zhu]

Misc [Overseas China Education Foundation ]([English Version]) [CCHere] [PhD Comics]
Some obsolete bookmarks

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