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MUTHUKUMARAN CHANDRASEKARAN
THINC Lab
URL: http://thinc.cs.uga.edu/
PHD STUDENT
THINC LAB
CS Department, UGA
Athens, GA-30602
Objective
Securing a position that offers challenge and growth potential and that permits me to learn new technologies while utilizing
the skills and research experience I have to offer to the fullest extent.
Education
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA [CURRENT]
PhD Candidate in Computer Science
Major Advisor – Dr. Prashant Doshi
Awarded Full Scholarship & Stipend through a Graduate Assistantship
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
MS in Artificial Intelligence
Major Advisor – Dr. Prashant Doshi
Thesis – Approximate Model Equivalence for Interactive Dynamic Influence Diagram
Awarded Full Scholarship & Stipend through a Graduate Assistantship
SASTRA University, Thanjavur, India
B.Tech in Mechatronics
Thesis – RF Remote Controlled Surveillance Robot (Range: 40ft)
Best Outgoing Student Award Recipient
In the Dean’s list (top 10%) for 4 straight years – Rs 5000 cash award/yr
May 2010 – Present
(GPA: 3.86/4.0)
Aug 2007 – May 2010
(GPA: 3.4/4.0)
Aug 2003 – May 2007
(GPA: 8.9/10 → 3.7/4.0)
Skill Set
C  C++  Java  Matlab  Prolog  Lisp  PHP  HTML  CSS  JavaScript  JQuery  Flash  ColdFusion  ExpressionEngine2.0 
MS SQL Server/Access  Sharepoint  MS Master Data Services  SQL/PLSQL  Oracle  PostgreSQL  MySQL Workbench 
Windows 7/Vista/XP  Linux Redhat/Ubuntu  Mac OS  HuginExpert  Netica  NeuroShell  WEKA  Dreamweaver 
Photoshop  Protégé  Poser  MimicPro  Maya  3D Studio Max  AutoCAD  English  Hindi  Tamil  Arabic
Relevant Coursework (MS and Ph.D)
Algorithms, Computer Networks, Database Management, Advanced Distributed Systems, Artificial Intelligence, AI and the Web,
Decision Making Under Uncertainty (advanced AI), Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computation, Natural Language
Processing, Computational Intelligence
Work Experience
Data Management Intern/Consultant, SYNOVUS Financial Corp.
2012
Designated to work on the Master Data Management project. Mission - Research the data quality issues surrounding the
'Master' data and provide a solution to integrate data from several source systems to a central repository and give the ability
to Synovus' user population to maintain integral data that is not maintained on the source systems through custom user
interface screens. Successfully implemented the project and transitioned the knowledge to Synovus' internal team. I was
requested to provide consulting and help during the ongoing production phase even after the internship ended in August.
AI Researcher, THINC Lab, UGA
2008 – Present
Investigate sequential planning and decision making for multi-agent settings in partially observable environments in the
context of Interactive Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (I-POMDPs) and their graphical counterparts Interactive Dynamic Influence Diagrams (I-DIDs). Develop exact and approximate solutions and explore ways for scaling up of
current methods to handle larger, more complex individual decision making problems also involving more than 2 agents.
Currently investigating teamwork in finitely nested hierarchical frameworks and attempt to induce true team behavior using
reinforcement learning.
Lead Web Developer, College of Veterinary Medicine, UGA
2010 - Present
Responsible for complete restructuring and migration of the College of Veterinary Medicine website (including the Teaching
hospital, Academic affairs, Diagnostic lab and all academic departments) to a content management system called
ExpressionEngine2.0. Also responsible for maintaining, updating existing websites and inspecting them for errors or
outdated content and perform quality control reviews of new sites and participate in strategic and operational planning.
Teaching Assistant, CS Department, UGA
2010
Instructor for CSCI 1100: Introduction to Personal Computing Lab. Also responsible for grading, leading group discussions
and holding office hours to interact with students and helping them with assignments and homework.
Web Designer/ Application Programmer/ Freelance
2009 – Present
Worked part-time on several web projects on an hourly basis. I was lead developer and was responsible for the design,
development and maintenance of web content. Here is a selected list of projects including the technologies used:
 [2009] SEO Research: Keyword Analysis Tool and
Picobarn Index, Picobarn
Perl, PHP, MySQL, Google Adwords API, Custom Search
API, Dreamweaver
 [2010 – 2011] College of Agriculture and Environmental
Sciences (CAES) Website, UGA
HTML, CSS, ColdFusion, SQL Server, JavaScript/JQuery,
Dreamweaver
 [2010] 40 Gallon Challenge Project, CAES, UGA
(link: http://www.40gallonchallenge.org)
Flash AS3, ColdFusion, JavaScript/JQuery, MS SQL
Server DB, Dreamweaver, Photoshop
Conference and Refereed Publications
[2013] Learning Team Behavior in Individual Decision Making in Multiagent Settings
Muthukumaran Chandrasekaran, Prashant Doshi, Yifeng Zeng, Yingke Chen, (under review at IJCAI, 2013).
[2012] Heuristics to Extract the Main Text from a Captured Web Page
Muthukumaran Chandrasekaran, Michael Covington, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
[2011] Utilizing Partial Policies for Identifying Equivalence of Behavioral Models
Yifeng Zeng, Prashant Doshi, Yinghui Pan, Hua Mao, Muthukumaran Chandrasekaran, Jian Luo, In Proceedings of the TwentyFifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-11), pp.1083-1088, 2011.
[2011] Evolving Efficient Sensor Arrangement and Obstacle Avoidance Control Logic for a Miniature Robot
Muthukumaran Chandrasekaran, Karthik Nadig, Khaled Rasheed. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Conference
on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE-11). (2nd Best Research Paper Award)
[2010] Epsilon-Subjective Equivalence of Models for Interactive Dynamic Influence Diagrams
Prashant Doshi, Muthukumaran Chandrasekaran, Yifeng Zeng, In Proceedings of 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference
on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-10), pp. 165-172, 2010.
[2010] Approximate Solutions of Interactive Dynamic Influence Diagrams Using Epsilon-Behavioral Equivalence.
Muthukumaran Chandrasekaran, Prashant Doshi, Yifeng Zeng, 11th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and
Mathematics (ISAIM-10), 2010.
[2008] Path Normalcy Analysis using Nearest Neighbor Outlier Detection
David Luper, Muthukumaran Chandrasekaran, Khaled Rasheed, Hamid R. Arabnia, In Proceedings of the International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI-08), pp. 776-783, 2008.
Posters & Presentations
[2011] Solving Multi-Agent Sequential Decision Making Problems Using Interactive Dynamic Influence Diagrams.
Muthukumaran Chandrasekaran, Research Day Poster Competition, UGA. (3rd Best Poster & $250 Cash)
[2008] Information-Theoretic Approach to Model Identification in Interactive Influence Diagrams
Yifeng Zeng and Prashant Doshi, presented by Muthukumaran Chandrasekaran, IEEE WIC/ACM IAT, Australia, 2008.
Services
[2009 – Present] I have been serving as an external reviewer for several papers submitted to the Autonomous Agent and
Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) conference and the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) since 2009.
References
1. Shoba Rao
Sr. Director of Data Management
Synovus Bank
Columbus, Georgia, USA
Email: shobarao[at]synovus[dot]com
3. Dr. Prashant Doshi – (PhD and MS) Major Advisor
Associate Professor
THINC Lab
CS Department, University of Georgia, USA
Email: pdoshi[at]cs[dot]uga[dot]edu
2. Katherine Y. Gilmore
Director of Public Relations
College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Georgia, USA
Email: kygilmor[at]uga[dot]edu
4. Dr. Yifeng Zeng – (PhD and MS) Co-Major Advisor
Associate Professor
Machine Intelligence Group
Robotics Lab, CS Department, Aalborg University, DK
Email: yifeng[dot]zeng[dot]dk[at]gmail[dot]com