Shakil Khan, University of Regina

Research

Actual causality Causal knowledge Explainable AI Intelligent and autonomous agents Knowledge representation and reasoning Reasoning about action and change Reasoning about belief Root cause analysis

Latest funding

Action-theoretic formalization of actual causation and its applications
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$75,000
Action-theoretic formalization of actual causation and its applications
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$12,500

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Action-theoretic formalization of actual causation and its applications

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Khan, Shakil

Keywords: knowledge representation and reasoning; reasoning about action and change; actual causality; root cause analysis; intelligent and autonomous agents; theory of mind; reasoning about belief; causal knowledge; the situation calculus; explainable ai

$75,000

Action-theoretic formalization of actual causation and its applications

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Discovery Launch Supplement

Principal investigators: Khan, Shakil

$12,500

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 Khan, 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 "Action-theoretic formalization of actual causation and its applications" (2022), 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]