Sunil Mishra

Biography and Interests

Sunil is a member of the representation and reasoning group, working under Dr. Vinay Chaudhri. He has a BS in Computer Science from Northwestern University, and an MS from Georgia Institute of Technology, and is primarily interested in engineering cognitive and intelligent software systems.

Current Projects

Automated User-Centered Reasoning and Acquisition System The goal of this project is to build a generic knowledge acquisition capability for Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. Using the system, the scientists will be able to formulate their knowledge in the three science domains, and the high school students will be able to pose Advanced-Placement style questions and get user appropriate explanations.

Past Projects

	A Knowledge Entry System for Subject Matter Experts The goal of SHAKEN project is to enable subject matter experts , without any assistance from AI technologists, to assemble the models of processes and mechanisms so that questions about them can be answered by declarative inference and simulation.
	A System for Representing Textbook Knowledge The goal of the project is to demonstrate the current state-of-the-art in knowledge representation by attempting to answer the questions in an advance placement test in chemistry.
	Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes As part of DARPA’s Personalized Assistant that Learns (PAL) program, SRI and team members are working on developing a next-generation "Cognitive Agent that Learns and Organizes" (CALO).

Software

AURA: Automated User-Centered Reasoning and Acquisition System The AURA system enables graduate students in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology to author knowledge from a science textbook, and support high school students to formulate questions against that knowledge to obtain answers.

Publications

The following are in reverse chronological order of publication.
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• Vinay K. Chaudhri and Peter E. Clark and Sunil Mishra and John Pacheco and Aaron Spaulding and Jing Tien. AURA: Capturing Knowledge and Answering Questions on Science Textbooks, Technical Report . SRI International, 2009.  [PDF, Details]

• Chaudhri, V., John, B.E., Mishra, S., Pacheco, J., Porter, B., Spaulding, A. Enabling Experts to Build Knowledge Bases from Science Textbooks, in The Proceedings of The Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP), October 2007.  [PDF, Details]

• Spaulding, A. and Chaudhri, V. K. and John, B. E. and Prevas, G. and Mishra, S. and Pacheco, J. Using Equations in Concept Maps to Graphically Build Knowledge Bases. 2007.  [PDF, Details]

• Jose-Luis Ambite, Vinay K. Chaudhri, Richard Fikes, Jessica Jenkins, Sunil Mishra, Maria Muslea, Tomas Uribe, Guizhen Yang. Design and Implementation of the CALO Query Manager, in Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, July 2006.  [PDF, Details]

• Ambite, Jose-Luis and Chaudhri, Vinay K. and Fikes, Richard and Jenkins, Jessica and Mishra, Sunil and Muslea, Maria and Uribe, Tomas and Yang, Guizhen. Integration of Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources in the CALO Query Manager. Technical Report, August 2005.  [PDF, Details]