Yi-Cheng Huang

 

(607)253-6434

ychuang@cs.cornell.edu

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/ychuang

 

 

 

Research Interests

l           Machine learning

l           Planning, constraint-satisfaction problem.

l           Data mining

l           Software agents

 

 

Education

Dec 2002

Ph.D.

Cornell University ¡V Computer Science

Ithaca, NY

 

 

Thesis: Learning Control Knowledge for Planning

Advisor: Prof. Bart Selman

 

 

 

 

 

Oct 2000

M.S.

Cornell University ¡V Computer Science

Ithaca, NY

 

 

 

 

May 1992

B.S.

National Taiwan University ¡V Computer Science & Information Engineering

Taipei, Taiwan

 

 

 

 

 

Research and Technical Experience

1999 ¡V 2002

Cornell University

Graduate Research Assistant

 

Advisor: Prof. Bart Selman

For my thesis research, I worked on automatically acquiring domain-dependent control knowledge for planning by machine learning techniques. I first introduced a new heuristic method for generating training examples that together with a rule induction algorithm can learn useful control rules in a variety of domains. The system reports the first positive results on learning for practical planning. Solution times can be reduced by two orders of magnitude or more on large problems, training time are short, and the learned control rules can be exported to other planning systems.

 

 

 

May 1999 ¡V Aug 1999

AT&T, Shannon Laboratory

Research Intern

Florham Park, NJ

 

Mentor: Prof. Henry Kautz

As a summer intern at AT&T Lab, I implemented the PDDL parser for the Blackbox planner, integrated real-sat, satz, and chaff SAT solvers into the Blackbox, and maintain the sources to the present.

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/kautz/blackbox/

 

 

1998 ¡V 1999

Cornell University

Graduate Research Assistant

 

Advisor: Prof. Bart Selman

Extended the PDDL planning language to incorporate declarative control knowledge into Blackbox planner.

 

 

1992 ¡V 1994

Radio Communication Research Office

Software Engineer

Kaoshiung, Taiwan

 

Designed and implemented Navy navigation charting software and logistics database management system.

 

Teaching Experience

Spring 2002

Session Instructor, Cornell University

 

Course: Introduction to Computer Programming

I taught Java and Matlab in the course sessions.

 

 

1996 - 1997

Teaching Assistant, Cornell University

 

Courses: Data Structures, Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence.

 

Publications

 

Yi-Cheng Huang, Bart Selman, Henry Kautz, Learning Declarative Control Rules for Constraint-Based Planning. In Proceedings of Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2000). Stanford, CA, 2000.

 

 

 

Yi-Cheng Huang, Bart Selman, Henry Kautz, Control Knowledge in Planning: Benefits and Tradeoffs. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99). Orlando, FL, 1999.

 

 

 

 

 

References

Prof. Bart Selman

Department of Computer Science

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY 14850

selman@cs.cornell.edu

(607)255-5643

Prof. Henry Kautz

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

University of Washington

Seattle, WA 98195

kautz@cs.washington.edu

(206)543-1896