A j i t Pa u l Si n g h

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Edmonton, Alberta

T6V 1B9

780-***-**** (Home)

780-***-**** (School)

abp3a5@r.postjobfree.com

http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~ajit

Education

University of Alberta

2001 2003

Edmonton, Alberta

M.Sc. Candidate Computing Science

Thesis title: What to do when you don t have much data: Issues in small sample parameter learning in Bayesian

networks

Advisor: Dr. Russell Greiner

University of Alberta

1997 - 2001

Edmonton, Alberta

B.Sc. (Honors) Computing Science (with First Class Honors)

Archbishop MacDonald High School

1994 - 1997

Edmonton, Alberta

International Baccalaureate Diploma

Advanced High School Diploma (with excellence)

Selected awards

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Award Type Period Held

NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship A $34,600 National 2001-2003

iCORE Postgraduate Fellowship $24,000 Provincial 2001-2003

Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship $8,100 Institutional 2001-2003

Burroughs-Wellcome CBW Bursary $1,200 National 2002

World Universities Debating Championship: 1st place Public n/a International 2002-2003

Speech

CUSID Debate Championships (Public Speech Finalist) n/a National 2002

CUSID Debate Championships (4th place - Debate Speech) n/a National 2002

CUSID Debate Championships (Quarter-Finalist Debate) n/a National 2002

NSERC University Undergraduate Student Research Award $4,000 National Summer 2001

Faculty of Science Award $2,000 Institutional 2001

Dean s Silver Medal in Science n/a Institutional 2001

Terence Holowach Memorial Prize $500 Institutional 2000

Judith Lynn Millar Memorial Scholarship $2,500 Institutional 1999

University of Alberta Undergraduate Scholarship $750 Institutional 1998

Harvey S. Perkins Academic Excellence Scholarship $2,000 Institutional 1997

Millar Western Entrance Scholarship $2,500 Institutional 1997

International Baccalaureate Scholarship $500 Institutional 1997

Faculty of Engineering Entrance Scholarship $2,000 Institutional 1997

William Crotty Memorial Leadership Scholarship $1,000 Institutional 1997

Alexander Rutherford Scholarship $1,500 Provincial 1997

Research Experience Canadian dollars

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Research Assistant

Jan 2002

Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Alberta

Dec 2002 All award values reported in Canadian dollars

(part-time) Supervisor: Dr. Robert Holte

Study of methods for comparing the estimated performance of a search heuristic. Developed a novel tree sampling

algorithm that avoids the high computational and domain knowledge requirements of previous methods.

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Research Assistant

May 2001

Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Alberta / Chenomx Inc.

Aug 2001

(full-time) Supervisor: Dr. Russell Greiner

Design and development of a system to diagnose inherited metabolic diseases from the NMR spectra of biofluids.

Also responsible for eliciting expert knowledge, sensitivity analysis, and model validation. Coordinated research

with Chenomx Inc.

Lead Developer

May 2000

Institute for Aerospace Research, National Research Council Canada

Aug 2000

(full-time) Supervisor: Dr. Barrie Leach

Responsible for the development of a real-time Kalman filtering navigation system. Developed real-time

architecture based on proven offline models. Implemented and wrote C++ filtering environment. Implemented data

preprocessor and physical interface to inertial navigation hardware. Responsible for project hardware choices.

Research Assistant

May 1999

Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Alberta

Aug 1999

(full-time) Supervisor: Dr. Ren e Elio

Research assistant in the area of multi-agent communication. Implemented and developed an interactive search

agent to test and further study the theories of Drs. Ren e Elio and Afsaneh Haddadi pertaining to an abstract task

model: a conversation policy and task model to support cooperation in a community of agents. Significant use of the

PRS-CL environment and LISP.

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant

Jan 2001

Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta

Apr 2001

(part-time) Supervisor: Dr. Ren e Elio Course: CMPUT 652

Developed and presented in-lab instructional material for graduate course in multi-agent coordination. Jointly

developed a major assignment with the instructor. Solely responsible for marking said assignment.

Teaching Assistant

Sep 2000

Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta

Dec 2000

(part-time) Supervisor: Mr. Stef Nychka Course: CMPUT 114

Taught weekly laboratory session of 20-25 students in Java programming. Responsible for assignment grading and

one-on-one tutorials.

Teaching Assistant

Sep 1999

Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta

Dec 1999

(part-time) Supervisor: Dr. Hong Zhang Course: CMPUT 229

Taught weekly laboratory session of 8 students in computer architecture (using Motorola 68000 assembly). Duties

included marking assignments and exams.

Publications

1. Refereed Contributions

Elio, R., Haddadi, A., & Singh, A . (2000). Abstract task specifications for conversation policies. In Proceedings of

the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pp. 229-230. Barcelona, Spain.

Elio, R., Haddadi, A., & Singh, A . (2000). Task models, intentions, and agent communication. In R. Mizoguchi & J.

Slaney (Eds.) PRICAI-2000 Topics in Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 1886.

pp. 394-403. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

2. Non Refereed Contributions

Singh, A., Greiner, R., Dorian V., Lefebvre, B. (2002) Automated diagnosis of IEMs using high-throughput NMR

spectroscopy. 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB-02). Poster.

Singh A. (2000) Implementation of a Real-Time Kalman Filtering Navigation System. Technical Report FR-132.

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Singh A. (1999) Directions in BDI Architectures. 23 pp. (B.Sc. Independent Study)

Service

Professional

President Computing Science Graduate Students Association (2002-2003)

Reviewer International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (2002)

Developer Web-based review system for ISMB (2002)

Mentor Faculty of Science Student Mentor Program (1999-2000)

Extracurricular

Student representative Students Union Academic Affairs Board (1998-2000)

Student representative Students Union Internal Review Board (1998-1999)

Student representative Students Union Awards Selection Committee (1999)

Internal Director University of Alberta Debate Club (1997-2000)

62nd Annual Hon. John Hugill Cup Debate (1998)

Tournament Director

Tournament Director Sir Winston Churchill Speech Competition (1997)

Writer, Presenter University of Alberta Student Academic Orientation (1999)

Memberships and Conferences

Member Golden Key National Honours Society (1998-2000) Member

Student Member American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Attendee NIPS 2001, UAI 2002

Attendee, Student Volunteer AAAI 2002, ISMB 2002

Student Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop in Proteomics (2002)

Student Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop in Genomics (2002)

Programming Languages

Fluent: C, C++ (with STL), Java, Motorola 68000 assembly, PRS-CL (multi-agent environment)

Practical experience with Lisp, Prolog, R, Perl, Lex & Yacc, Pascal, dMARS (multi-agent environment),

Development experience on Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows NT platforms

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