Melinda T. Gervasio


Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise
2164 Staunton Court
Palo Alto, California 94306
(650) 723-1684
(650) 494-3884 (fax)


Research Interests

My primary research interests lie in the intersection of planning and machine learning. I am interested in the development of autonomous as well as advisory systems or computational assistants that, simply put, help human users construct better plans faster. Through machine learning, such systems can learn from experience, including interactions with users, to improve performance in future similar situations. My more recent work has focused on mixed-initiative systems, in particular, on the role of adaptive assistance in such settings.


Projects

Adaptive Crisis Response

Completable Planning


Biosketch

I am currently a research scientist at the Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise (ISLE). In my work on adaptive user interfaces over the past few years, I have had the opportunity to collaborate with other researchers at ISLE as well as at Stanford University., the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence, the Daimler-Chrysler Research and Technology Center, and the Computational Learning Laboratory in the Center for the Study of Language and Information.

In a previous life, I was a member of the Artificial Intelligence Group in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. There, I worked on a number of projects involving planning and machine learning (under the guise of completable planning) as a member of the Explanation-Based Learning Group led by Gerald F. DeJong,

My computer roots come from the College of Engineering of the University of the Philippines at Diliman, Quezon City where, as a fledgling computer scientist, I whiled time away at the U.P. Computer Society and the U.P. Association of Computer Science Majors.


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Last update: January 6, 2000