Mikhail Soutchanski, Toronto Metropolitan University

Research

actual causality domain independent planning formal methods heuristic search knowledge representation and reasoning reasoning about action and change symbolic planning

Latest funding

Principled Reasoning about Dynamical Systems
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$144,000
A Principled Approach to Reasoning about Discrete Dynamic Systems
NSERC · 2015 · Principal investigator
$120,000
Modular and taxonomic representations for tractable reasoning about actions
NSERC · 2009 · Principal investigator
$95,000

All 4 grants and awards

Principled Reasoning about Dynamical Systems

Principal investigatorNSERC2020Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Soutchanski, Mikhail

Keywords: reasoning about action and change; knowledge representation and reasoning; symbolic planning; actual causality; heuristic search; domain independent planning; formal methods

$144,000

A Principled Approach to Reasoning about Discrete Dynamic Systems

Principal investigatorNSERC2015Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Soutchanski, Mikhail

$120,000

Modular and taxonomic representations for tractable reasoning about actions

Principal investigatorNSERC2009Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Soutchanski, Mikhail

$95,000

Logic-based decision theoretic planning and learning

Principal investigatorNSERC2003Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Soutchanski, Mikhail

$80,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: actual causality Dear Professor Soutchanski, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on actual causality connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "Principled Reasoning about Dynamical Systems" (2020), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]