SACHIN KAMBOJ - Curriculum Vitae -------------------------------- Address : Center for Carbon-Free Power Integration University of Delaware 007A Robinson Hall Newark, DE 19716 Email : kamboj@cis.udel.edu Tel : (302) 566-5477 Homepage : http://www.cis.udel.edu/~kamboj/ Current Research ---------------- Design of Multiagent Systems for Vehicle-To-Grid (V2G) Power Integration * Department: Center for Carbon-free Power Integration * Institution: University of Delaware * Faculty Advisors: Dr. Willett Kempton and Dr. Keith S. Decker Education --------- * Doctor of Philosophy o Thesis: The use of Organizational Self-Design to coordinate Multiagent Systems o Advisor: Prof. Keith S. Decker o Department of Computer and Information Sciences o University of Delaware, Newark, DE o G.P.A.: 3.94/4.00 * Master of Science o Department of Computer and Information Sciences o University of Delaware, Newark, DE o G.P.A. 3.94/4.00 * Bachelor of Engineering o Computer Science and Engineering o Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal, India o Division: First Class with Distinction Publications ------------ Highly Refereed Conference Papers: * 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%) * 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%) * 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%) Journal Papers/Book Chapters: * 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). * 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). * 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). * 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). * 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) Workshop Papers: * 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). * 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). * 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) * 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). * 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). Posters/Short Papers: * 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) Presentations ------------- * Introduction to LaTeX, invited talk given at the Special Interest Group for New Graduate Students (SIGNEWGRAD), Fall 2008. * Exploring Robustness In The Context Of Organizational Self-Design, presented at the AAAI Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems (COIN@AAAI 2008), July, 2008. * Organizational Self-Design in Semi-dynamic Environments, presented at the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2007), May, 2007. * Introduction to Organizational Self-Design, presented at the IJCAI workshop on Agent Organizations: Models and Simulations (AOMS@IJCAI 2007), January 2007. * Multiagent Organizations, two guest lectures presented at a seminar course on multiagent systems (CISC 886), Fall 2006. Work Experience --------------- * Post-doctoral Researcher w/ Dr. Willett Kempton (Fall 2009 - Present) o Formally modeled and simulated the behavior of a multiagent coalition server capable of aggregating several hundreds of cars. o Implemented an actual coalition server capable of aggregating cars. o Set up a calendar for reserving trips and predicting the driving behavior for the electric cars. * Research Assistant w/ Prof. Joan Burnside (Fall 2006 - Summer 2009) o Developed and maintained a website for mapping know microRNAs to potential targets in chicken 3'UTRs o Set up Gallus Gallus SBS, a website for view chicken signature data * Research Assistant w/ Prof. David Mills (Fall 2005 - Fall 2006) o Rewrote the configuration process for the reference implementation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) using a phrase structure grammar. o Developed a test plan for testing protocol conformance for NTP o Developed a multi-server discrete event simulator for NTP * Teaching Assistant (Spring 2005) o CISC 101: Introduction to Computers * Research Assistant w/ Prof. Keith Decker (Spring 2004 - Fall 2005) o Developed cluster-based phrap and blast back ends for the UDGenome project o Setup and administered the DAS server for the UDGenome project * Teaching Assistant (Fall 2003) o CISC 220: Data Structures in C++ o CISC 370: Object Oriented Programming in Java * Teaching Assistant (Fall 2002 - Spring 2003) o MSST/ARTH 205: Science and the Detection of Art Forgeries o ARTH 237: Art of Tibet 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 ----------------------- * Reviewer, International Joint Conference on Autonomous 2011 Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) * Program Committee Member, First International workshop 2010 on Agent Technologies for Energy Systems (ATES@AAMAS 2010). * Reviewer, Journal on Autonomous Agents and 2009 Multi-Agent Systems * Program Committee Member, Eighth Workshop on 2009 Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems (COIN@IJCAI 2009). * Senator, Graduate Student Senate (GSS) Feb. 2008 - Feb. 2009 o Co-chair, GSS Sustainability committee Jun. 2008 - May 2009 * Auxiliary Reviewer, International Joint 2007 - 2010 Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) * Auxiliary Reviewer, Twenty-Third AAAI 2008 Conference on Artificial Intelligence * Reviewer, Journal on Autonomous Agents August 2007 and Multi-Agent Systems * Officer, Computer and Information 2004 - 2009 Sciences Graduate Student Association(CIS-GSA) * Member, IFAAMAS and AAAI Honors and Awards ----------------- * Quantum Leap Innovations graduate student excellence award, 2008 * University of Delaware Alumni Enrichment Award, 2007 * Nominated for the best student paper award at the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2007 * Graduate Travel Awards, 2006 and 2007 * Arts and Sciences Dean's List, 2005 * CIS Research Fellowship, 2004 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: LATEX, MS-Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access), Apple iWorks (Keynote and Pages), Omnigraffle, Macromedia Director, Macromedia Authorware, MySQL, AutoCAD References and Code Samples --------------------------- * Available upon request