Assistant Professor

Email: dshell@cse.tamu.edu
Phone: (979)845-2369
Fax: (979)847-8578
Office: 333B HRBB
Website: http://robotics.cse.tamu.edu/dshell

Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Southern California, 2008
M.S. University of Southern California, 2006
B.Sc. (Hons) Computer Science, University of the Witwatersrand, 2001
B.Sc. Computational & Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, University of the Witwatersrand, 2000

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Distributed AI, biologically-inspired multi-robot systems, coordinated system, analysis of multi-agent systems, crowd modeling

EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, Fall 2009 - present

Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Fall 2008 - Summer 2009

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE

Program committee, 2009 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

E. Drumright and D. A. Shell, "A Robust and Tractable Contact Model for Dynamic Robotic Simulation," In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC), pages 1176-1180, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, March 2009.

D. A. Shell and M. J. Matarić, "Ergodic Dynamics for Large-Scale Distributed Robot Systems," In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Unconventional Computation (UC) Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4135, pages 254-266, York, United Kingdom, Sep 2006.

D. A. Shell and M. J. Matarić, "Principled Synthesis for Large-Scale Systems: Task Sequencing," In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), pages 207-216, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, July 2006.

D. A. Shell and M. J. Matarić, "Behavior-Based Methods for Modeling and Structuring Control of Social Robots," In Cognition and Multi-Agent Interaction: From Cognitive Modeling to Social Simulation, Ron Sun (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2005.

D. A. Shell and M. J. Matarić, "Insights Toward Robot-Assisted Evacuation," Advanced Robotics, The International Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, 19(8), 797-818, 2005.

C. V. Jones, D. A. Shell, M. J. Matarić and B. P. Gerkey, "Principled Approaches to the Design of Multi-Robot Systems," Invited contribution to Workshop on Networked Robotics, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pages 71-80, Sendai, Japan, September 2004.