He is also serving as the founding director of the Faculty of Robotics at UGA (http://robotics.uga.edu) -- an OVPR initiative. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2005. His research interests lie in decision making under uncertainty in multiagent settings, robotics and the semantic Web. His research has been funded by grants from NSF (including the CAREER in 2008), AFOSR, ARO and ONR. He received UGA's Creative Research Medal in 2011 for his contributions to automated decision making. He has published extensively in JAIR, conferences such as AAAI and AAMAS, and other forums in the fields of agents and AI. Currently, he is on sabbatical with the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo.