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Ajit Paul Singh15415-132 StreetEdmonton, AlbertaT6V 1B9(780) 457-3258 (Home)(780) 492-3090 (School)ajit@cs.ualberta.cahttp://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~ajitEducation2001 – 20031997 - 20011994 - 1997University of AlbertaEdmonton, AlbertaM.Sc. Candidate – Computing ScienceThesis title: What to do when you don’t have much data: Issues in small sample parameter learning in BayesiannetworksAdvisor: Dr. Russell GreinerUniversity of AlbertaEdmonton, AlbertaB.Sc. (Honors) Computing Science (with First Class Honors)Archbishop MacDonald High SchoolEdmonton, AlbertaInternational Baccalaureate DiplomaAdvanced High School Diploma (with excellence)Selected awardsAward Value 1 Type Period HeldNSERC Postgraduate Scholarship A $34,600 National 2001-2003iCORE Postgraduate Fellowship $24,000 Provincial 2001-2003Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship $8,100 Institutional 2001-2003Burroughs-Wellcome CBW Bursary $1,200 National 2002World Universities Debating Championship: 1 st place Public n/a International 2002-2003SpeechCUSID Debate Championships (Public Speech Finalist) n/a National 2002CUSID Debate Championships (4 th place - Debate Speech) n/a National 2002CUSID Debate Championships (Quarter-Finalist Debate) n/a National 2002NSERC University Undergraduate Student Research Award $4,000 National Summer 2001Faculty of Science Award $2,000 Institutional 2001Dean’s Silver Medal in Science n/a Institutional 2001Terence Holowach Memorial Prize $500 Institutional 2000Judith Lynn Millar Memorial Scholarship $2,500 Institutional 1999University of Alberta Undergraduate Scholarship $750 Institutional 1998Harvey S. Perkins Academic Excellence Scholarship $2,000 Institutional 1997Millar Western Entrance Scholarship $2,500 Institutional 1997International Baccalaureate Scholarship $500 Institutional 1997Faculty of Engineering Entrance Scholarship $2,000 Institutional 1997William Crotty Memorial Leadership Scholarship $1,000 Institutional 1997Alexander Rutherford Scholarship $1,500 Provincial 19971All award values reported in Canadian dollarsResearch ExperienceJan 2002 –Dec 2002(part-time)Research AssistantArtificialAll awardIntelligencevalues reportedLaboratory,in CanadianUniversitydollarsof AlbertaSupervisor: Dr. Robert HolteStudy of methods for comparing the estimated performance of a search heuristic. Developed a novel tree samplingalgorithm that avoids the high computational and domain knowledge requirements of previous methods.1/3

May 2001 –Aug 2001(full-time)May 2000 –Aug 2000(full-time)May 1999 –Aug 1999(full-time)Research AssistantArtificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Alberta / Chenomx Inc.Supervisor: Dr. Russell GreinerDesign 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 researchwith Chenomx Inc.Lead DeveloperInstitute for Aerospace Research, National Research Council CanadaSupervisor: Dr. Barrie LeachResponsible for the development of a real-time Kalman filtering navigation system. Developed real-timearchitecture based on proven offline models. Implemented and wrote C++ filtering environment. Implemented datapreprocessor and physical interface to inertial navigation hardware. Responsible for project hardware choices.Research AssistantArtificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of AlbertaSupervisor: Dr. Renée ElioResearch assistant in the area of multi-agent communication. Implemented and developed an interactive searchagent to test and further study the theories of Drs. Renée Elio and Afsaneh Haddadi pertaining to an abstract taskmodel: a conversation policy and task model to support cooperation in a community of agents. Significant use of thePRS-CL environment and LISP.Teaching ExperienceJan 2001 –Apr 2001(part-time)Sep 2000 –Dec 2000(part-time)Sep 1999 –Dec 1999(part-time)Teaching AssistantDepartment of Computing Science, University of AlbertaSupervisor: Dr. Renée Elio Course: CMPUT 652Developed and presented in-lab instructional material for graduate course in multi-agent coordination. Jointlydeveloped a major assignment with the instructor. Solely responsible for marking said assignment.Teaching AssistantDepartment of Computing Science, University of AlbertaSupervisor: Mr. Stef Nychka Course: CMPUT 114Taught weekly laboratory session of 20-25 students in Java programming. Responsible for assignment grading andone-on-one tutorials.Teaching AssistantDepartment of Computing Science, University of AlbertaSupervisor: Dr. Hong Zhang Course: CMPUT 229Taught weekly laboratory session of 8 students in computer architecture (using Motorola 68000 assembly). Dutiesincluded marking assignments and exams.Publications1. Refereed ContributionsElio, R., Haddadi, A., & Singh, A. (2000). Abstract task specifications for conversation policies. In Proceedings ofthe 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 ContributionsSingh, A., Greiner, R., Dorian V., Lefebvre, B. (2002) Automated diagnosis of IEMs using high-throughput NMRspectroscopy. 10 th 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-132.2/3

Singh A. (1999) Directions in BDI Architectures. 23 pp. (B.Sc. Independent Study)ServiceProfessionalPresident – 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)ExtracurricularStudent 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)Tournament Director – 62 nd Annual Hon. John Hugill Cup Debate (1998)Tournament Director – Sir Winston Churchill Speech Competition (1997)Writer, Presenter – University of Alberta Student Academic Orientation (1999)Memberships and ConferencesMember – Golden Key National Honours Society (1998-2000) – MemberStudent Member – American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)Attendee – NIPS 2001, UAI 2002Attendee, Student Volunteer – AAAI 2002, ISMB 2002Student – Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop in Proteomics (2002)Student – Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop in Genomics (2002)Programming LanguagesFluent: 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 platforms3/3