Dr. Mikhail Soutchanski

Professor

416-979-5000 ext. 557954

Research Interests

Computationally Tractable Reasoning About Actions and Events

Lifted Planning

Planning in Hybrid Systems

Principled Methods for Domain Independent Large Scale Problem Solving

Reasoning About Actual Causes and Root Cause

Course Code	Course Name
CPS 721	Artificial Intelligence
CPS 815 / CP 8201	Topics in Algorithms
CPS 822 / CP 8314 (Advanced AI)	Artificial Intelligence 2: Dynamic Systems in Artificial Intelligence
CPS 824 / CP 8319	Reinforcement Learning

2019-2020, Publications resulted with Ryerson's #10 ranking in Canada for (pure) Artificial Intelligence in 2019 (according to Computer Science Rankings (external link, opens in new window) )

May 2010-May 2012, Member of the Advisory Board of KR, Inc, an international scientific body organizing bi-annual conferences on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.
August 2008-May 2010, Local Organizing Chair of the 12th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R-2010) held in Toronto from May 9 to May 13, 2010 (more than 200 attendees); Coordinator with a number of co-located international conferences (AAMAS, ICAPS, NMR, FOIS).
Program Committee member: AAAI, IJCAI, ECAI, AI journal, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

Year	Degree	University
2003	PhD	University of Toronto
1984	Diploma with Honors (BSc/MSc equivalent)	PhysTech, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, State University