Assistant Professor Department of Computing Science University of Alberta Affiliations: Canada CIFAR AI Chairs program, RLAI lab Vision & Robotics lab, Amii Email: [email protected] Google Scholar Profile Research I develop reinforcement learning algorithms and real-time learning systems for controlling physical robots. My research objective is developing general and constructive mechanisms for continually improving robot minds. Currently, I am working on two long-term programs consisting of several sho
In this program, we develop and analyze algorithms for learning policies and representations in a continual learning setup, where the agent is expected to go through a series of changes in the environment and tasks. Therefore, the agent has a vested interest in not only learning the specific task of the moment but also acquiring and accumulating knowledge and skills that are generally pertinent to its environment and likely applicable to an unseen future task in the same environment. We analyze the shortcom
NSERC proposal ( one-page summary )