Athena Tabakhi

Athena Tabakhi is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, part of the McKelvey School of Engineering. She joined the faculty in Fall 2021 after earning her PhD from the same university in 2021. Her research focuses on AI-driven solutions for home automation systems, particularly in modeling and optimizing scheduling under user preferences and constraints.

Education:

• PhD, Washington University in St. Louis (2021)
• MS, New Mexico State University (2014)
• BEng, Azad University of Tehran (2009)

Research Interests: Athena’s work integrates multi-agent systems and constraint-based methodologies to address challenges in smart home technology. Her algorithms aim to minimize costs and peak power demand while aligning with homeowners' preferences. She explores preference elicitation techniques to reduce exhaustive data collection in dynamic environments.

Awards/Grants: No awards or grants explicitly mentioned in the text.

Advising & Labs: No student advisees or affiliated labs/teams listed in the provided information. She contributed to initiatives like the AI for St. Louis summer camp, fostering youth engagement in AI and computing.