Alan Fern
Location: (Corvallis, Oregon)
Personal Research Web Page: http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~afern/
Keywords: Machine Learning, Automated Planning, Reinforcement Learning, Decision Theoretic Planning, Activity Recognition, Structured Machine Learning, Statistical Relational Learning, Speedup Learning, Real-Time Strategy Games
Posted on: Monday, May 9th, 2011
Broad Research Area: AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision
Research Interests:
I am interested in the areas of machine learning, automated planning, activity recognition, and the intersections of these areas. I am particularly interested in problems that require learning and inference in the context of rich knowledge representations. Two areas that I aim to make progress in over the next decade include:
1) Understanding the interplay between planning/inference and learning, where learning is used to both improve the quality and efficiency of planning/inference, and
2) Holistic activity understanding in complex videos of team sports, with the goal of developing new representations and associated inference and learning algorithms.
