NASA Logo, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Minh Do (Đỗ Bình Minh)

Senior Research Scientist
KBR.
Planning & Scheduling Group
Autonomy & Robotics Area
Intelligent Systems Division
NASA Ames Research Center

Projects

Current

  • Autonomous Systems and Operations - Vehicle Management System (ASO VSM)
  • Activity Planning with Resources for the Exploration of Space (APRES).
  • Planning for Quantum Computing.

Past

Research Interests

  • Planning with time and resources
  • Partial-satisfaction planning
  • Planning with incomplete preference model
  • Online planning, replanning, and interleaving planning and execution
  • Heuristics

+ PAPERS

Professional Service

ORGANIZER

  • Conference co-chair, 31st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2021.
  • Sponsorship co-chair, 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'15), 2015.
  • Conference co-chair, 24th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2014.
  • Workshop co-chair, 5th & 6th Scheduling and Planning Application Workshop (SPARK) at ICAPS, 2011 & 2012
  • SystemDemo co-chair, 21st & 26th International Conf. on Automated Planning & Scheduling (ICAPS), 2011 & 2016
  • Co-chair, 6th International Planning Competition, 2008.
  • Industrial-chair, 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), 2008.
  • Workshop Co-chair, Workshop on Planning Competition, ICAPS 2007.
MEMBERSHIP
  • ICAPS Executive Council Member, 2014 - 2020. Current duty: Conference Liaison.
  • Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Senior Member.
  • Editorial Board Member of Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 2008 – 2014.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER
  • International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling (ICAPS): 2006 – 2021
  • National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): 2005, 2007-2017, 2018 (SPC), 2019-2021.
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI): 2005-2009, 2011-2015 (SPC), 2016 (Area Chair), 2017-2021 (SPC)
  • AAAI Demo Program: 2015, 2018-2020.
  • IJCAI Demo Program: 2015-2020.
  • The AI Nectar Track (best of AI Conferences) at AAAI: 2006 - 2008.
  • The 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI): 2008, 2012
  • Scheduling and Planning Application Workshop (SPARK): 2009-2019
  • Workshop on Constraint Satisfaction for Planning and Scheduling Problems (COPLAS): 2007-2019
  • International Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space (IWPSS): 2015-2017
  • International Conference on Theories & Applications of Computer Science (ICTACS): 2009
  • Bridging the Gap between Task and Motion Planning Workshop at ICAPS: 2009, 2012.
  • AAAI’s Student Abstract Program: 2006, 2011.
  • ICAPS 2008 Workshop on Oversubscribed Planning & Scheduling, 2008.
  • International Conference on Theories & Applications of Computer Science (TACS): 2006.
REVIEWER
  • Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ)
  • Journal of Automated Reasoning (JAR)
  • AI Communications – The European Journal on Artificial Intelligence (AICom).
  • IEEE Intelligent Systems.
  • ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
AUXILIARY REVIEWER
  • ICAPS05, AAAI04, WIPIS04, ICAPS04, IWPSS04, AIPS02, ECP01, IJCAI01, AIPS00, AAAI00

Selected Awards & Honors

  • Design Process Track Winner. 4th International Competition on Knowledge Engineering for Planning & Scheduling (2012)
  • Xerox PARC's Golden Acorn Award (2011)
  • ICAPS-10’s Most Influential Paper, Runner-up (2010)
  • PARC’s Outstanding Performance (2006, 2010, 2011)
  • Distinguished Performance Award in the Fifth International Planning Competition (2006)
  • Best Application Paper Award, ICAPS-05 Conference (2005)
  • Best Ph.D. Graduate in Computer Sci. & Eng. Department, Arizona State University (2005)
  • Arizona State University’s Nomination for ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (2004)
  • POSCO Company’s full Scholarship for undergraduate study in South Korea (1993-1998)
  • 3rd Place Prize in Vietnam Universities Mathematics Olympiad (1993)
  • 1st Place in entrance exams for National University of Civil Engineering & Thang Long College (1992)

Patents

I have about 25 issued and pending patents ; all when I was still a PARC employee -- I can't keep track of their latest status but here is the list of issued patents from Google Patent search

Education Background

  • Ph.D.: Arizona State University, Computer Science & Engineering, 2004 ( Best Ph.D. Award )
  • B.S.: POSTECH University, Computer Science, 1999.

Contact

NASA Ames Research Center,
Mail Stop 269-3,
Bldg. N269, Room 113
Moffett Field CA 94035-0001

minh . do @ nasa . gov
(650) 604-2567

First Gov logo
NASA Logo - nasa.gov