I was a graduate student and Research Assistant for the Resource Bounded Reasoning laboratory at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, studying problems in Artificial Intelligence. I am originally from Marlboro, New Jersey, and graduated from Cornell University in 1998 with a double major in Computer Science and (cognitive) Psychology. In 2005 I earned my Master's Degree in Computer Science at Tufts University, my advisor was Jim Schmolze. From 1998 to 2006 I worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, first as Assistant Staff and then as Associate Staff.  

My Ph.D. dissertation, successfully defended in October 2011, was titled "Decision-Theoretic Meta-Reasoning in Partially Observable and Decentralized Settings". The topic combined my three theoretical research interests: meta-reasoning, partially observable environments, and decentralized settings. My advisor was Professor Shlomo Zilberstein.

I am currently employed by Aptima, Inc., more details here

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For information on the Dec-POMDP model, see Chris Amato's DEC POMDP Page

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My Publications:

Carlin, A., & Zilberstein , S. (2011). Decentralized Monitoring of Distributed Anytime Algorithms. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Autonomous Systems and Multiagent Systems, Taipei, Taiwan.

Alexander, A., Saffell, T. N., Alaverdi, O., Carlin, A. S., Chang, A., Durkee, K., Galster, S. M., Geiselmen, E., Latorella, K., Wickens, C. D., Schurr, N. (under review). ALARMS: Alerting and reasoning management system. NASA.

Saffell, T. N., Alexander, A. L, Carlin, A., Chang, A. C., & Schurr, N. (in press). An integrated alerting and notification system utilizing stages of automation and uncertainty Visualization. Proceedings of the International Symposium of Aviation Psychology , Dayton, OH: Wright State University.

Carlin, A., Alexander, A. L., & Schurr, N. (2010). Modeling pilot state in next generation aircraft alert systems. MODSIM World 2010 Conference & Expo.

Carlin, A., Ayers, J., Rousseau, J., & Schurr, N. (2010). Agent-based coordination of human-multirobot teams in complex environments. Proceedings of Nineth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems , Toronto, Canada.

Carlin, A., Schurr, N., and Marecki, J. (2010). ALARMS: Alerting and Reasoning Management System for Next Generation Aircraft Hazards. Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2010) . P. Grünwald and P. Spirtes (Editors). AUAI Press.

Grande, D. E., Freeman, J., Carlin, A., Weil, W., Sorber, T.,& Black, T. (2010). Modeling the structure and adaptation of dynamic organizations. Poster presented at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, 7-10 November, 2010, Austin, TX.

Becker, R., Carlin, A., Lesser, V., & Zilberstein, S. (2009). Analyzing myopic approaches for multi-agent communication. Computational Intelligence , 25.

Freeman, J., Stacy, W., MacMillan, J., Carlin, A., & Levchuk, G. (2009). Capturing and building adaptive expertise in virtual worlds. Proceedings of Human Computer Interaction International 2009 . San Diego, CA, 19-24 July 2009.

Carlin, A., & Zilberstein, S. (2008) POMDP and DEC-POMDP point-based observation aggregation. AAAI Workshop on Advancements in POMDP Solvers , Chicago, Illinois.

Carlin, A., & Zilberstein, S. (2009). Myopic and non-myopic communication under partial observability. 2009 IEEE Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology , Milan, Italy.

Carlin, A., & Zilberstein, S. (2008). Observation compression in DEC-POMDP policy trees. Workshop on Multi-Agent Sequential Decision Making in Uncertain Domains (MSDM) , Estoril, Portugal. Winner: Best Paper Award MSDM 2008 Workshop.

Carlin, A., & Zilberstein , S. (2008). Value-based observation compression for DEC-POMDPs. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Systems and Multiagent Systems , Estoril, Portugal.

Amato, C., Carlin, A., & Zilberstein, S. (2007). Bounded dynamic programming for decentralized POMDPs. Workshop on Multi-Agent Sequential Decision Making in Uncertain Domains , Honolulu, Hawai'i.

Carlin, A., Schmolze, J. G., & Babaian, T. (2005). Graphplan based conformant planning with limited quantification. Research on Computing Science , 16, 65-75.

Carlin, A. PSIGRAPH:  A Psiform Based Conformant Graphplan. Presented at NESCAI 2006.