Interim Associate Director for Research, AI Institute Professor, School of Computing Education: PhD (Computer Science), The University of Illinois at Chicago, 2005 MSc (Computer Science), Drexel University, 2001 Research Research Interests: Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence Robotics Computational Intelligence Semantic Web and Semantic Web Processes Bioinformatics and Health Informatics Research Interests: Research Focus: Artificial intelligence & Robotics Decision-Making under Uncertainty, Multi-Agent Systems Reinforcement Learning, Learning from demonstrations