Sachin Kamboj
Post-Doctoral Researcher, 007A Robinson Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716
Email: skamboj@udel.edu, Tel: (302) 566-5477, Homepage: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~kamboj/
EDUCATION
 Doctor of Philosophy
Thesis: The use of Organizational Self-Design to coordinate Multiagent Systems
Advisor: Prof. Keith S. Decker
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
G.P.A.: 3.94/4.00
Jan 2010
 Master of Science
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
G.P.A.: 3.94/4.00
Jan 2005
 Bachelor of Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering
Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal, India
Division: First Class with Distinction
July 2002
PUBLICATIONS
Highly Refereed Conference Papers:
 Kamboj, S., Decker, K. and Kempton, W., “Deploying Power Grid-Integrated Electric
Vehicles as a Multi-Agent System”, To appear in Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint
Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011). (Acceptance Rate:
22.1%)
 Kamboj, S., “Analyzing the tradeoffs between breakup and cloning in the context of
organizational self-design”, In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009). (Acceptance Rate: 22.3%)
 Kamboj, S. and Decker, K., “Organizational Self-Design in Semi-dynamic Environments”, In
Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems (AAMAS 2007), pp 1220–1227 (2007). Nominated for best student paper. (Acceptance
Rate: 22.4%)
Journal Papers/Book Chapters:
 Kamboj, S. and Decker, K., “The use of Organizational Self-Design for generating organizations
in worth-oriented domains”, To appear in Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems:
Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models, edited by Virginia Dignum, IGI Global
Publications, pp. 541–568 (2009).
 Kamboj, S. and Decker, K., “Exploring Robustness in the context of Organizational Self-Design”,
To appear in Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems IV (COIN),
edited by Jomi F. Hubner et al., Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 5428, pp. 80–95
(2009).
 Waidner, L., Morgan, R., Anderson, A., Bernberg, E., Kamboj, S., Garcia, M., Riblet, S., Ouyang,
M., Isaacs, G., Markis, M., Meyers, B., Green, P., and Burnside, J. (2009) “Micrornas of gallid
and meleagrid herpesviruses show generally conserved genomic locations and are virus-specific.”
To appear in Virology (2009).
 Morgan, R., Anderson, A., Bernberg, E., Kamboj, S., Huang, E., Lagasse, G., Isaacs, G., Parcells,
M., Meyers, B. C., Green, P. J., and Burnside, J. “Sequence conservation and differential
expression of Marek’s disease virus microRNAs”, Journal of Virology, 82(24), JVI.01722-08, pp.
12213–12220 (2008).
 Kumar, A., Kamboj, S., Malone, B. M., Kudo, et. al., “Analysis of protein domains and Rett
mutations indicate multiple regions influence chromatin binding dynamics of the chromatin
associated protein MeCP2 in vivo”, Journal of Cell Science 121, pp. 1128–1137 (2008).
 Torii, M., Kamboj, S., and Vijay-Shanker, K., “Using name-internal and contextual features to
classify biological terms”, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Special issue on Natural Language
Processing in Biomedicine: Aims, Achievements and Challenges (2004).
 Reedy. C. L. and Kamboj, S., “Comparing Comprehensive Image Analysis Packages: Research
with Stone and Ceramic Thin Sections,” in Development of a Web-Accessible Reference Library
of Deteriorated Fibers Using Digital Imaging and Image Analysis, edited by Jane Merritt, National
Park Service, Harpers Ferry, WV, pp. 159-166 (2003).
Workshop Papers:
 Kamboj, S., Decker, K., Trnka, K., Pearre, N., Kern, C. and Kempton, W., “Exploring the
formation of Electric Vehicle Coalitions for Vehicle-To-Grid Power Regulation”, In 2010
AAMAS workshop on Agent Technologies for Energy Systems (ATES@AAMAS 2010).
 Kamboj, S., Estrada, T., Taufer, M. and Decker, K., "Applying Organizational Self-Design to a
Real-world Volunteer Computing System", In 2009 AAMAS workshop on Agent Design:
Advancing from Practice to Theory (ADAPT@AAMAS 2009).
 Kamboj, S. and Decker, K., "Exploring Robustness in the context of Organizational Self-Design”,
2008 AAAI Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems
(COIN@AAAI 2008)
 Kamboj, S. and Decker, K., "Organizational Self-Design in Semi-dynamic Environments", 2007
IJCAI workshop on Agent Organizations: Models and Simulations (AOMS@IJCAI 2007)
 Jin, L., Steiner, K., Schmidt, C., Situ, G., Kamboj, S. et. al., "A Multiagent Framework to
Integrate and Visualize Gene Expression Information", 2005 IEEE-ICDM Workshop on
Multiagent Data Warehousing and Multiagent Data Mining, pp. 1-7 (2005).
 Torii, M., Kamboj, S., and Vijay-Shanker, K., "An Investigation of Various Information Sources
for classifying Biological Names", 2003 ACL Workshop on NLP in Biomedicine, pp. 113-120
(2003).
Short Papers/Posters:

Kamboj, S. and Decker, K., "Organizational Self-Design in Semi-dynamic Environments", in
Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems (AAMAS 06). pp 335-337 (2006)
PRESENTATIONS
 Introduction to LATEX, invited talk given at the Special Interest Group for New Graduate
Students (SIGNEWGRAD), Fall 2008.
 Exploring Robustness In The Context Of Organizational Self-Design, presented at the AAAI
Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems
(COIN@AAAI 2008), July 2008.
 Organizational Self-Design in Semi-dynamic Environments, presented at the Sixth
International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2007),
May 2007.
 Introduction to Organizational Self-Design, presented at the IJCAI workshop on Agent
Organizations: Models and Simulations (AOMS@IJCAI 2007), January 2007.
 Multiagent Organizations, two guest lectures presented at a seminar course on multiagent
systems (CISC 886), Fall 2006.
WORK EXPERIENCE
 Post-doctoral Researcher w/ Dr. Willett Kempton
Fall 2009 - Present
 Formally modeled and simulated the behavior of a multiagent coalition server capable of
aggregating several hundreds of cars.
 Implemented an actual coalition server capable of aggregating cars.
 Set up a calendar for reserving trips and predicting the driving behavior for the electric
cars.
 Research Assistant w/ Prof. Joan Burnside
Fall 2006 – Summer 2009
 Developed and maintained a website for mapping known microRNAs to potential targets
in chicken 3’UTRs (http://mdvmicrorna.dbi.udel.edu/)
 Set up Gallus Gallus SBS, a website for viewing chicken signature data
(http://mpss.udel.edu/gga/)
 Research Assistant w/ Prof. David Mills
Fall 2005 – Fall 2006
 Rewrote the configuration process for the reference implementation of the Network Time
Protocol (NTP) using a phrase structure grammar.
 Developed a test plan for testing protocol conformance for NTP
 Developed a multi-server discrete event simulator for NTP
 Teaching Assistant
 CISC 101: Introduction to Computers
Spring 2005
 Research Assistant w/ Prof. Keith Decker
Spring 2004 – Fall 2005
 Developed cluster-based phrap and blast back ends for the UDGenome project
(http://udgenome.ags.udel.edu)
 Setup and administered the DAS server for the UDGenome project
 Teaching Assistant
 CISC 220: Data Structures in C++
 CISC 370: Object Oriented Programming in Java
Fall 2003
 Teaching Assistant
Fall 2002 – Spring 2003
 MSST/ARTH 205: Science and the Detection of Art Forgeries
 ARTH 237: Art of Tibet
SELECTED PROJECTS
 Simulator for OSD: This project involves the design and implementation of a discrete-event,
multi-agent simulator for my research on Organizational Self-Design. This simulator is still under
active development and I plan to release it soon, under the LGPL open-source license.
 NTP: The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used in the Internet to synchronize computer clocks to
each other and to the national standard time (or coordinated universal time – UTC). It can be
argued that NTP is the longest running, continuously operating, ubiquitously available protocol on
the Internet. I wrote the configuration code and the simulator code for official, open-source,
reference implementation of NTP, which can be downloaded from http://www.ntp.org/.
 UD Genome: The UD Genome project aims to build a central repository of annotated gene
information for different organisms using various data mining techniques. I was responsible for
developing various back-end databases for this project.
 Bio-medical Name Classification: This project used various information sources to classify
names in bio-medical texts and forms the first stage of any bio-medical information extraction
program.
 Game-Playing AI Engine: This project incorporated aspects of Natural Language Processing,
Adversarial Search and Reinforcement Learning to learn how to play a game. It took the
description of a game in English and converted it to a Lisp program that used Reinforcement
Learning to learn how to play the game. The engine was tested on a game of Othello, which it
learned to play fairly well.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
 Program Committee Member, Eighth Workshop on Coordination,
Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems (COIN@IJCAI 2009).
 Senator, Graduate Student Senate (GSS)
 Co-chair, GSS Sustainability committee
2009
Feb. 2008 – Present
Jun. 2008 – Present
 Auxiliary Reviewer, International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems (AAMAS)
2007, 2008, 2009
 Auxiliary Reviewer, Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
 Reviewer, Journal on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
 Officer, Computer and Information Sciences
Graduate Student Association (CIS-GSA)
2008
August 2007
2004 – Present
 Member, IFAAMAS and AAAI
HONORS AND AWARDS
 Quantum Leap Innovations Graduate Student Excellence Award, 2008
 University of Delaware Alumni Enrichment Award, 2007
 Nominated for the best student paper award at the Sixth International Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2007
 Graduate Travel Awards, 2006 and 2007
 Arts and Sciences Dean’s List, 2005
 CIS Research Fellowship, 2004
SKILLS AND SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY
 Langauges: Lisp/Scheme, C, C++, Python, Javascript, Java, SQL, 8085/6 Assembly Language,
Fortran, HTML, English and Hindi
 Platforms: Linux/Solaris/Unix/Mac OS X, Windows XP/2000/9x/NT and DOS
 Packages: LATEX, MS-Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access), Apple iWorks (Keynote and
Pages), Omnigraffle, Adobe Director, Adobe Authorware, MySQL, AutoCAD