Dana S. Nau


Dana S. Nau is a professor of computer science and systems research at the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science in College Park, where he has done research in automated [planning and scheduling], game theory, cognitive science, and computer-aided engineering. He has many PHD students, including Qiang Yang who graduated in 1989. He has more than 300 publications and several best-paper awards. Some of his accomplishments include the discovery of game tree pathology, the development of the SHOP and SHOP2 HTN planning systems, and the book Automated Planning: Theory and Practice. He is a Fellow of the AAAI and in 2022 he was elected as a Fellow of the AAAS.

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