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  • (03/22/08) Dr. Chen joins the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.  
        
  • (01/08/08) We receive a 2008 allocation award from the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center for our research on high-performance optimization solvers.
              
  • (08/21/07) We receive an NSF grant for our IIS Robust Intelligence proposal titled "Planning with Complex Constraints and Preferences by Nonlinear Programming and Constraint Partitioning", for the period 09/01/2007-8/31/2010.
         
  • (07/06/07) Vanessa Clark and Zhao Xing have successfully proposed their doctoral theses.
            
  • (05/22/07) We receive a startup award from the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center for our research on high-performance optimization solvers.
          
  • (04/22/07) Dr. Chen receives the Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship.  
                   
  • (04/11/07)  Vanessa Clark is admitted to Ph.D. candidacy.
        
  • (02/24/07)  Vanessa Clark wins the 2nd Place in the Washington University Graduate Research Symposium.
                 
  • (07/18/06) Dr. Chen receives the Early Career Principal Investigator Award from the Department of Energy for research on applications of numerical optimization.  
                         
  • (06/09/06) The MaxPlan planner developed by our WashU team wins the First Prize in  the Optimization Track at the 5th International Planning Competition, ICAPS, Windermere, UK, 2006. A departmental report has more details.
             
  • (06/09/06) The SGPlan5 planner developed by a joint UIUC-WashU team wins the First Prize in the Satisficing Track at the 5th International Planning Competition, ICAPS, Windermere, UK, 2006.
                
  •  (02/24/06) Dr. Chen visits the the Center for Computational Biology of Washington University and delivered a talk on "Large-scale optimization for structured problems on high-performance parallel computers".
                 
  • (01/05/06) A paper on "Subgoal Ordering and Granularity Control for Incremental Planning", by Chih-Wei Hsu, Yixin Chen and Benjamin W. Wah, receives the Best Paper Award at the 17th IEEE International Conference on Tools for Artificial Intelligence.
                                             
  • (12/20/05) Dr. Chen visits the Radiation Oncology Department of Washington University and the Center for Radiation Treatment.