Jordan
Kingsbury Hall Room w236
Department of Computer Science
University of New Hampshire
33 Academic Way
Durham, NH 03820
jordan dot thayer at gmail dot com

My name is Jordan Thayer. I am a graduate student at the University of New Hampshire in the Computer Science program. I am a member of the UNH Artificial Intelligence Group. I am currently working with Prof. Wheeler Ruml in the area of heuristic search. I am also occasionally a teaching assistant for CS730/830, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. Before joining UNH in 2006, I attended Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, where I got my undergraduate degree in computer science. While there, I was a DJ at WMHD, a member and president of Theta Xi, Kappa Chapter, and a developer at Rose-Hulman Ventures where I worked primarily for ObTech.

My CV

Recent Updates

The university newspaper has an article that talks about our research group.

I have some new still images that provide a bit of insight into how the Explicit Estimation Search algorithm works.

A paper that I did in collaboration with Roni Stern, Ariel Felner, and Wheeler Ruml was accepted for publication in ICAPS-12.

Research Interests

Many of my papers are available on-line, along with the presentations for them.

I'm very interested in understanding heuristic search algorithms, particularly those which return solutions within a bounded factor of optimal. Recently, I've been doing work with anytime algorithms and greedy search, two areas that are strongly related to the first.

If you're looking for a crash course in my research area, you should take a look at some videos I've posted explaining some of the fundamental algorithms in the area.

If you don't like moving pictures, I've got some still images that demonstrate some interesting behaviors of search algorithms here.

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If you're looking for an informal way to learn about AI, feel free to drop in at the UNH AI Group meetings.

I've been working on a plotting tool for use inside and outside of OCaml called SPT. It's what I use to generate all of the plots in my papers now.

Contact Information

UNH CS on Google Maps. If you're on campus, my office is in Kingsbury W236. Chances are you'll find me there.