Research Interests

Education

Publications

• Kamboj, S., Kempton, W. and Decker, K., "Deploying Power Grid-Integrated Electric Vehicles as a Multi-Agent System" , to appear in the Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011). (Acceptance Rate: 22.1%) (PDF)
• Kamboj, S., "Analyzing the tradeoffs between breakup and cloning in the context of organizational self-design" , in Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009). (Acceptance Rate: 22.3%) (PDF)
• Kamboj, S. and Decker, K., "Organizational Self-Design in Semi-dynamic Environments", in Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2007) pp 1220--1227 (2007). Nominated for best student paper (Acceptance Rate: 22.4%) (PDF)

• Kamboj, S. and Decker, K.: "The use of Organizational Self-Design for generating organizations in worth-oriented domains" , To appear in Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models, edited by Virginia Dignum, IGI Global Publications, pp. 541--568 (2009). (PDF Posted with permission of the publisher, IGI Global.)
• Kamboj, S. and Decker, K., "Exploring Robustness in the context of Organizational Self-Design" , To appear in Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems IV (COIN), edited by Jomi F. Hubner et al., Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 5428, pp. 80--95 (2009). (PDF)
• Waidner, L., Morgan, R., Anderson, A., Bernberg, E., Kamboj, S., Garcia, M., Riblet, S., Ouyang, M., Isaacs, G., Markis, M., Meyers, B., Green, P., and Burnside, J. (2009) "MicroRNAs of gallid and meleagrid herpesviruses show generally conserved genomic locations and are virus-specific." To appear in Virology (2009).
• Morgan, R., Anderson, A., Bernberg, E., Kamboj, S., Huang, E., Lagasse, G., Isaacs, G., Parcells, M., Meyers, B. C., Green, P. J., and Burnside, J. "Sequence conservation and differential expression of Marek's disease virus microRNAs." , Journal of Virology, 82(24), JVI.01722-08, pp. 12213--12220 (2008).
• Kumar, A., Kamboj, S., Malone, B. M., Kudo, et. al.: "Analysis of protein domains and Rett mutations indicate multiple regions influence chromatin binding dynamics of the chromatin associated protein MeCP2 in vivo" , Journal of Cell Science 121, pp. 1128--1137 (2008). (PDF)
• Torii, M., Kamboj, S., and Vijay-Shanker, K., "Using name-internal and contextual features to classify biological terms", Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Special issue on Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine: Aims, Achievements and Challenges, (2004). (PDF)
• Reedy. C. L. and Kamboj, S., "Comparing Comprehensive Image Analysis Packages: Research with Stone and Ceramic Thin Sections," in Development of a Web-Accessible Reference Library of Deteriorated Fibers Using Digital Imaging and Image Analysis, edited by Jane Merritt, National Park Service, Harpers Ferry, WV, pp. 159-166 (2003)

• Kamboj, S., Decker, K., Trnka, K., Pearre, N., Kern, C. and Kempton, W., "Exploring the formation of Electric Vehicle Coalitions for Vehicle-To-Grid Power Regulation" , in 2010 AAMAS workshop on Agent Technologies for Energy Systems (ATES@AAMAS 2010). (PDF)
• Kamboj, S., Estrada, T., Taufer, M. and Decker, K., "Applying Organizational Self-Design to a Real-world Volunteer Computing System" , Submitted to the 2009 AAMAS workshop on Agent Design: Advancing from Practice to Theory (ADAPT@AAMAS 2009). (PDF)
• Kamboj, S. and Decker, K., "Exploring Robustness in the context of Organizational Self-Design" , 2008 AAAI Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems (COIN@AAAI 2008)
• Kamboj, S. and Decker, K., "Organizational Self-Design in Semi-dynamic Environments", 2007 IJCAI workshop on Agent Organizations: Models and Simulations (AOMS@IJCAI 2007) (Paper-PDF, Presentation-PDF)
• Jin, L., Steiner, K., Schmidt, C., Situ, G., Kamboj, S. et. al., "A Multiagent Framework to Integrate and Visualize Gene Expression Information", 2005 IEEE-ICDM Workshop on Multiagent Data Warehousing and Multiagent Data Mining, pp. 1-7 (2005). (PDF)
• Torii, M., Kamboj, S., and Vijay-Shanker, K., "An Investigation of Various Information Sources for classifying Biological Names", 2003 ACL Workshop on NLP in Biomedicine, pp. 113-120 (2003). (PDF)

• Kamboj, S. and Decker, K., "Organizational Self-Design in Semi-dynamic Environments", in Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 06). pp 335--337 (2006) (Paper-PDF, Poster-PDF)

Presentations

Work Experience

Selected Projects

• Simulator for OSD: This project involves the design and implementation of a discrete-event, multi-agent simulator for my research on Organizational Self-Design. This simulator is still under active development and I plan to release it soon, under the LGPL open-source license.
• NTP: The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used in the Internet to synchronize computer clocks to each other and to the national standard time (or coordinated universal time - UTC). It can be argued that NTP is the longest running, continuously operating, ubiquitously available protocol on the Internet. I wrote the configuration code and the simulator code for official, open-source, reference implementation of NTP, which can be downloaded from ntp.org.
• UD Genome: The UD Genome project aims to build a central repository of annotated gene information for different organisms using various data mining techniques. I was responsible for developing various back-end databases for this project.
• Bio-medical Name Classification: This project used various information sources to classify names in bio-medical texts and forms the first stage of any bio-medical information extraction program.
• Game-Playing AI Engine: This project incorporated aspects of Natural Language Processing, Adversarial Search and Reinforcement Learning to learn how to play a game. It took the description of a game in English and converted it to a Lisp program that used Reinforcement Learning to learn how to play the game. The engine was tested on a game of Othello, which it learned to play fairly well.

Professional Activities

• Program Committee Member, Eighth Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems (COIN@IJCAI 2009).
        2009
• Senator, Graduate Student Senate (GSS)
        Feb. 2008 - Present
  • Co-chair, GSS Sustainability committee
          Jun. 2008 - Present
• Auxiliary Reviewer, International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
        2007, 2008, 2009
• Auxiliary Reviewer, Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
        2008
• Reviewer, Journal on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
        August 2007
• Officer, Computer and Information Sciences Graduate Student Association(CIS-GSA)
        2004 - Present
• Member, IFAAMAS and AAAI

Honors and Awards

Skills and Software Proficiency

• Languages: Lisp/Scheme, Python, C, C++, Javascript, Java, SQL, 8085/6 Assembly Language, Fortran, HTML, English and Hindi
• Platforms: Linux/Solaris/Unix/Mac OS X, Windows XP/2000/9x/NT and DOS
• Packages: L^ATEX, MS-Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access), Apple iWorks (Keynote and Pages), Omnigraffle, Macromedia Director, Macromedia Authorware, MySQL, AutoCAD

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