Dana S. Nau

Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Systems Research. I've done a lot of AI research, especially on automated planning and game theory.

• A brief bio
• Publications
• Current and former students, postdoctoral researchers, research scientists

Note to students: please don't send me requests for an internship or assistantship. "Professor Emeritus" means I'm retired.

Selected awards:

• NSF PYI,  AAAI Fellow,  ACM Fellow,  AAAS Fellow

Selected accomplishments:

• AI planning systems:
  • SHOP and SHOP2
  • Pyhop,  GTPyhop
  • Rae and UPOM

• Textbooks:
  • Automated Planning: Theory and Practice (2004)
  • lecture slides
  • Automated Planning and Acting (2016)
    • lecture slides
    • authors' manuscript
  • Acting, Planning, and Learning (to appear 2025, manuscript available)

• Studies of cultural evolution:
  • Ethnocentrism diminishes as mobility increases
    • press release
  • Explaining the evolution of gossip
    • press release and Newsweek article

Other web pages about me:

• Google Scholar, DBLP, AMiner, ORCID, Semantic Scholar, Wikipedia

Contact info:

Mail:	Iribe Center, University of Maryland 8125 Paint Branch Drive, College Park, MD 20742
Phone:	301-405-2684
Web:	https://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau
Email:	nau@umd.edu

Miscellany:

• Flykt, my wife's album of Scandinavian folk music
• Notes on writing and presentations
• My academic ancestry