Address and Stuff

Department of Computer Science
Computer Science Building, Room 324
140 Governor's Drive
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
hzafar@cs.umass.edu
C.V.

I am a member of the MAS Lab, and am currently being co-advised by Dr. Victor Lesser and Dr. Dan Corkill.

Now, if you would like to drop by, close your eyes, open the door for room 324, and keep walking till you hit something. I am on the other side of the temporary wall you just knocked on, hard to miss.... ;-)

Research Interests (Publications)

BlackBoard Architectures

Design and Implementation of large scale black-board architectures, specifically dealing in issues of control.

Orgranizational Design

Designing the collection of roles, relationships and authority structures which govern behavior, in multi-agent systems.

Sensor Networks

The implications of having organizational knowledge in sensor networks, and extracting knowledge for organization design.

Current Research Projects

Dissertation

Still working on what its exactly going to be on. Most probably something really awesome (I bet everyone says that at the start of their work.. ;-)).

Bootstrap Learning

Developing the control architecture that assists an electronic student in learning from its teacher.

Classes I have taken at UMass

Fall 2005

CmpSci 689 - Machine Learning: Pattern Classification, taught by Sridhar Mahadevan.
CmpSci 791DD - Learning to See (Seminar), taught by Eric Learned-Miller.

Spring 2006

CmpSci 687 - Reinforcement Learning, taught by Andy Barto.
CmpSci 791BB - Advanced Machine Learning (Seminar), taught by Sridhar Mahadevan.

Fall 2006

CmpSci 611 - Advanced Algorithms, taught by Ramesh Sitaraman.
CmpSci 696 - Independent Study, under Victor Lesser.

Spring 2007

CmpSci 645 - Database Design and Implementation, taught by Yanlei Diao.
CmpSci 791MO - Multi-Agent Organizations (Seminar), taught by Victor Lesser & Dan Corkill.

Spring 2008

CmpSci 601 - Theory of Computation, taught by Neil Immerman.
CmpSci 691V - Multi-Agent Systems (Seminar), taught by Victor Lesser.