Dhirendra Singh

PHD Student

Contact

Room 10.11.18
School of Computer Science & IT
RMIT University
GPO Box 2476V
Melbourne VIC 3001

Tel: +61 3 9925 3781

Biography

Dhirendra Singh is a PhD candidate at the School of Computer Science & Information Technology at RMIT University in Melbourne, with a top-up scholarship and co-supervision from the CSIRO ICT Centre in Sydney. His research focus is in the area of collaborative learning in multi-agent systems and he is particularly interested in its applicability to the BDI model of agency.

Prior to commencing his PhD in 2007, Dhirendra was developing high end simulators for Digital Signal Processors at Freescale Semiconductor (formerly part of Motorola). Highlights of his work there include the development and integration of the MSC8144 Quad-Core Full Chip Simulator that incorporated four StarCore SC3400 cores and a myriad of peripherals; enhancements to the legacy StarCore SC140 Core Cycle Accurate Simulator including addition of all new core instructions, clock timing changes to the pipeline, changes to the existing interrupt state machine, and maintaining the existing 99.5% core clock accuracy over simulations spanning millions of cycles; and work on the SPW DSP Developers Kit (SDDK) and the Motorola DSP Developers Kit (MDDK) for MATLAB that allowed the creation, simulation and analysis of systems based on the StarCore DSP platform. The SDDK product was demonstrated at the reputed Design Automation Conference (DAC) in 2003.

Dhirendra has been involved in AI research since his undergraduate days. He was a member of the RMIT RoboCup team that competed in the Middle-sized robot league in 1999. During that time he developed a software simulator to help speed agent development by allowing robot behaviours to be tested independent of the hardware. After graduation, Dhirendra continued his work in software agents as a researcher with The Center for Scientific and Technological Research (ITC-IRST) where he helped build a proof-of-concept software prototype integrating software agents, web services, and distributed data sources.

Academic Qualifications

2001	Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Systems Engineering) RMIT University
2001	Bachelor of Applied Science (Computer Science) RMIT University

Recent Professional Experience

2007-present	PhD candidate, RMIT University, Australia
2006	Senior Software Engineer, Australian Semiconductor Technology Company, Australia
2004-2006	Senior Software Engineer, Freescale Semiconductor, Australia
2001-2004	Software Engineer, Motorola, Australia
2000-2001	Researcher, The Center for Scientific and Technological Research, Italy

Top 10 Publications

Publication details
P. Busetta, L. Serafini, D. Singh and F. Zini, "Extending multi-agent cooperation by overhearing", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (London, UK, 2001), Springer-Verlag, pp. 40-52.
J. Brusey, A. Jennings, M. Makies, C. Keen, A. Kendall, L. Padgham and D. Singh, "RMIT Raiders", Robot Soccer World Cup III (London, UK, 2000), Springer-Verlag, pp. 741-744.