Gita Sukthankar
Professor
- Office: L3Harris Engineering Center Room 232
- Email: gita.sukthankar@ucf.edu
- Phone: 407-823-4305
BIOGRAPHY
Gita Sukthankar received her Ph.D.(2007) from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon, an M.S. in Robotics (CMU), and an A.B. in psychology from Princeton University. From 2000-2003, she worked as a researcher at Compaq Research/HP Labs (CRL) in the handheld computing group. In 2009, Sukthankar was selected for an Air Force Young Investigator award, the DARPA Computer Science Study Panel, and an NSF CAREER award. She is the co-organizer of the AAAI workshop series on Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition. At UCF, she directs the Intelligent Agents Lab which focuses on three key aspects of social computational systems:
- recognizing and predicting human intention
- cooperation/teamwork
- modeling group dynamics
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in Robotics – Carnegie Mellon University
RESEARCH
- Multi-agent systems
- Machine learning
- Activity/plan recognition for:
- Games and simulation systems
- Assistive technologies
- Human-robot interaction
- Social-computational systems
AWARDS
- UCF Reach for the Stars Award (2015)
- CECS Dean’s Research Professorship Award (2013)
- UCF Research Incentive Award (2013)
- UCF Faculty Excellence for Doctoral Mentoring (Engineering and Sciences) (2012)
- ACM and IEEE Senior Member
- CECS Distinguished Researcher (asst. professor), 2010
- Charles N. Millican Faculty Fellow (2010, 2012)
- DARPA Computer Science Study Group, (2009)
- NSF CAREER (2009)
- Air Force Young Investigator Program (2009)
- ONR Summer Faculty Fellow (2008)