Patrik Haslum

Roles and Affiliations: Patrik Haslum is a part-time Researcher in the AI group at the Research School of Computer Science (ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science), Australian National University. He is seconded to Data61's Decision Sciences program. Previously, he was at NICTA and Linköpings Universitet.

Education: PhD in Computer Science from Linköpings Universitet (Sweden), with research on admissible heuristics for automated planning.

Research Interests: Focuses on AI planning, particularly plan quality optimization and heuristic search. Specializes in optimal planning, domain analysis, and applying planning techniques to problems like genome edit distance, diagnosis, and robotics. His work bridges automated planning with Petri nets and discrete event systems.

Advising & Students: Supervised four PhD students including Jing Cui (2018), Franc Ivankovic (2018), Fazlul Hasan Siddqui (2015), and Debdeep Banerjee (2015). Offers student projects in areas like story planning, optimal troubleshooting, and policy validation for MDPs.

Labs & Contributions: Leads research in the AI group at ANU, contributing to tools like the INVAL plan validator and PDDL domain encodings. Active in international planning competitions and workshops.