Jordan Thayer

Jordan Thayer (she/her)

Postdoctoral Researcher

About Me I'm a postdoctoral researcher at Linköping University's Artificial Intelligence & Integrated Computer Systems Division (AIICS) within the Machine Reasoning Lab (MRLab). My research interests are heuristic search, especially under time, memory, and quality bounds, as well as learning guidance and control for search.

My research aims to contribute improvements to performance and returned solution quality of heuristic search algorithms on combinatoric search problems in settings where solving problems optimally is infeasible.

Short Bio

I have a doctorate in computer science from the University of New Hampshire where I was supervised by Wheeler Ruml. My doctoral thesis was titled "Heuristic Search Under Time and Quality Bounds". After completing my PhD I worked at both SIFT and the Charles-Stark Draper Laboratory. Most recently (2018-2025), I was the founding member of the AI practice for SEP, a software consultancy focusing on building systems with high costs of failure. I returned to academia in 2026.