Bistra Dilkina

Program:

    Ph.D. Student
Department of Computing Science
Cornell University
    Ithaca, NY USA

e-mail: bistra at cs.cornell.edu
office: 5151 Upson Hall
office tel.: 607 255 3042

Research Area(s):
 Constraint reasoning and optimization, Scheduling, Hybrid search techniques, Game theory

News

Co-chair, North - East Student Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence (NESCAI 2008)

Papers, Talks and Posters

Attended Conferences

Professional Service

Education

Awards and Distinctions

Links

Papers, Talks, and Posters

Tradeoffs in the Complexity of Backdoor Detection
Bistra Dilkina, Carla P. Gomes, Ashish Sabharwal
CP-07: 13^th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Providence, RI, Sep 2007.

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The Impact of Network Topology on Pure Nash Equilibria in Graphical Games
Bistra Dilkina, Carla P. Gomes, Ashish Sabharwal
AAAI-07: 22^nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, July 2007.

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Extending Systematic Local Search for Job Shop Scheduling Problems

Bistra Dilkina, Lei Duan, and William S. Havens

CP-05: 11^th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Sitges, Spain, October 2005

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A Framework for Designing and Evaluating Mixed-Initiative Optimization Systems

Arthur Kirkpatrick, Bistra Dilkina, and William S. Havens

ICAPS-05: Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Planning and Scheduling, Monterey, CA, June 2005

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Scheduling the National Football League Season

Bistra Dilkina and William S. Havens

IAAI-04: 16^th Innovative Applications in AI Conference, San Jose, USA, July 2004
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A Hybrid Schema for Systematic Local Search

William S. Havens and Bistra Dilkina

AI-04: 17^th Canadian Conference on AI, London, Canada, May 2004
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Scheduling as a Constraint Satisfaction Problem

ASI Exchange Undergraduate Poster, Spring 2003 (html)

Systematic Local Search

a talk in the 3rd International Workshop on Constraint Programming and Belief Revision, Sydney, Australia, December 2002

Attended Conferences

GHC 2007 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Orlando, FL, Oct 2007

CP 2007 International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Providence, RI, Sept2007

AAAI 2007 AAAI Conference on AI, Vancouver, BC Canada, July 2007

NESCAI 2007 North - East Student Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence, Ithaca, NY USA, April 2007

CRA-W 2007 Grad Cohort Workshop for Women, San Francisco, CA USA, March 2007

CRA-W 2006 Grad Cohort Workshop for Women, San Francisco, CA USA, March 2006

CP 2005 International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Sitges, Spain, October 2005

ICAPS 2005 International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, Monterey, CA, June 2005

AAAI/IAAI 2004 National Conference on AI, San Jose, CA, July 2004

SAT 2004 International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing, Vancouver, Canada, May 2004

AI 2004 Canadian Conference on AI, London, Canada, May 2004

FCRC 2003 Federated Computing Research Conference, San Diego, CA, June 2003

3^rd Workshop on Constraint Programming and Belief Revision, Sydney, Australia, December 2002

IJCAI 2001 International Joint Conference on AI, Seattle, WA USA, August 2001

Professional Service

Co-chair, North - East Student Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence (NESCAI 2008)

Reviewer, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008)

Reviewer, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007)

Reviewer, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2006/2007)

Reviewer, CP-AI-OR Conference (CP-AI-OR 2007/2008)

Reviewer, CP Conference (CP 2007)

Reviewer, 24th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2007)

Reviewer, Annals of Operations Research Special Issue for CP-AI-OR 2006

Reviewer, North - East Student Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence (NESCAI 2007)

Education

B.Sc. with Honors	(1999 - 2004)	School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University	Vancouver, CANADA
International Baccalaureate (IB)	(1997-1999)	United World College of the Adriatic	Trieste, ITALY
High school	(1993 - 1997)	American College of Sofia	Sofia, BULGARIA

Awards and Distinctions

2007 Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship

a $10,000 scholarship for outstanding female undergraduate and graduate students completing their degrees in computer science and related fields

Thanks To Scandinavia Fellowship for Bulgaria 2006-2007

a competitive annual fellowship that offers future Bulgarian leaders firsthand experience into the workings of U.S. organizations

Dean of Applied Sciences Convocation Medal
awarded to one student from any department in Applied Sciences for outstanding academic achievements

B.C. Sugar Achievement Award
an annual award of $4,000 honoring someone from SFU who, through a commitment to excellence, has brought distinction to the university and B.C. by achieving national or international prominence.

2003 Outstanding Female Undergraduate Award by the Computing Research Association (CRA)
recognizes undergraduate students who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research

International Gordon M. Shrum Scholarship
full scholarship for completing a Bachelors degree at Simon Fraser University [$40,000 over 8 semester] (1999)

Full scholarship
for a 2-year study towards an International Baccalaureate Diploma at the United World College of the Adriatic, Italy (1997-1999)

Certificate of Participation with Distinction of the Research Science Institute’96
for producing one of the top five research papers, "An Alternative Approach to Information Retrieval Using Multi-word Terms", realized in the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT (1996)

Full scholarship
to take part in the summer program Research Science Institute’96 held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1996)

Links of interest

My list of programs and scholarships for Women in CS
My list of non-US citizen PhD fellowships