Assistant Professor

Email: dshell@cse.tamu.edu
Phone: (979)845-2369
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

AWARDS

Faculty Service Excellence Award, Spring 2010

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

Conference Editorial Board, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Robotics and Automation Society.

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

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

L. Liu and D. A. Shell, "Multi-level Partitioning and Distribution of the Assignment Problem for Large-scale Multi-robot Task Allocation," 2011 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS), Los Angeles, California, June 2011.

L. Liu and D. A. Shell, "Assessing Optimal Assignment under Uncertainty: An Interval-based Algorithm," International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), vol. 30, no. 7, pp. 936-953, June 2011.

L. Liu, B. Fine, D. Shell, A. Klappenecker. "Approximate Characterization of Multi-Robot Swarm 'Shapes' in Sublinear-Time," Proceedings of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Shanghai, China, May 2011

E. Drumwright and D. Shell, "Modeling Contact Friction and Joint Friction in Dynamic Robotic Simulation Using the Principle of Maximum Dissipation," Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics: Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics IX: Selected Contributions of the Ninth International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, 2010.

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, pp. 254-266, York, United Kingdom, Sep 2006.

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), pp. 797-818, 2005.