I am a graduate student in Computer Science at Cornell University. My advisor is Bart Selman. My research interests span multiple sub-areas of artificial intelligence, including automated planning, search, reasoning and machine learning.

Prior to Cornell, I was an undergraduate at Purdue University, where I earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering. My undergraduate research work was carried out under the supervision of Robert Givan and Alan Fern.

In the distant past, I spent a couple of years in Singapore completing my GCE A Levels as an SIA Youth Scholar.

When not in Upson Hall, I can usually be found stalking birds or playing ultimate.

For more about me, here’s my CV.

My research interests span multiple areas of Artificial Intelligence, including single-agent and adversarial planning, combinatorial reasoning and machine learning. The focus of my thesis work has been on understanding the factors that determine the success of sampling-based planning methods such as UCT.

For more details, please see my research statement.

RESEARCH

Applying UCT to Boolean Satisfiability (extended abstract)

Alessandro Previti, Raghuram Ramanujan, Marco Schaerf and Bart Selman

In SAT-11: Fourteenth International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing, pp 373-374, Ann Arbor, MI, June 2011. Extended version in AI*IA 2011: Artificial Intelligence Around Man and Beyond - XIIth International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, pp 177-188, Palermo, Italy, September 2011.

Trade-offs in Sampling-Based Adversarial Planning

Raghuram Ramanujan and Bart Selman

In ICAPS-11: 30th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, Freiburg, Germany, June 2011.

Honorable mention for best student paper

Understanding Sampling Style Adversarial Search Methods

Raghuram Ramanujan, Ashish Sabharwal and Bart Selman

In UAI-10: 6th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, pp 474-483, Avalon / Catalina Island, CA, July 2010.

On Adversarial Search Spaces and Sampling-Based Planning

Raghuram Ramanujan, Ashish Sabharwal and Bart Selman

In ICAPS-10: 29th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, pp 242-245, Toronto, Canada, June 2010.

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

WORKSHOP PAPERS

On the Behavior of UCT in Synthetic Search Spaces

Raghuram Ramanujan, Ashish Sabharwal and Bart Selman

In Workshop on Monte Carlo Tree Search Methods, Freiburg, Germany June 2011.

TEACHING

I am passionate about teaching and have been involved as either a teaching assistant or instructor in a number of courses during my time at Cornell and Purdue. For a comprehensive overview of my teaching experiences, please visit my teaching portfolio page.