Engineer Computer Science

Joel Veness

Computing Science Department +1-780-***-****

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Edmonton, Alberta

Canada T6G 2E8

Arti cial Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning, Data Compression, Game Tree Search.

Research

Interests

University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, May 2011

Dissertation Title: Approximate Universal Arti cial Intelligence

Primary Advisor: Marcus Hutter

Co-Advisors: Kee Siong Ng, Alan Blair, William Uther, John Lloyd

University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

B.Sc. (Honours Class 1), Computer Science, December 2007

cse wam: 91/100

M. Bellemare, J. Veness, M. Bowling, Investigating Contingency Awareness using Atari

Academic

2600 Games, Association for the Advancement of Arti cial Intelligence (AAAI), 2012.

Publications

J. Veness, K.S. Ng, M. Hutter, M. Bowling, Context Tree Switching, IEEE Data Com-

pression Conference (DCC), 2012.

J. Veness, M. Lanctot, M. Bowling, Variance Reduction in Monte-Carlo Tree Search,

Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2011.

S. Legg and J. Veness, An Approximation of the Universal Intelligence Measure, Ray

Solomono 85th Memorial Conference, 2011.

J. Veness, K.S. Ng, M. Hutter, W. Uther, D. Silver, A Monte Carlo AIXI Approxima-

tion, Journal of Arti cial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 2011.

D. Silver, J. Veness, Monte-Carlo Planning in Large POMDPs, Neural Information

Processing Systems (NIPS), 2010.

J.Veness, K.S. Ng, M. Hutter, D. Silver, Reinforcement Learning via AIXI Approxi-

mation, Association for the Advancement of Arti cial Intelligence (AAAI), 2010.

J. Veness, D. Silver, W. Uther, A. Blair, Bootstrapping from Game Tree Search, Neural

Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2009.

J. Veness and A. Blair, E ective Use of Transposition Tables in Stochastic Game Tree

Search, IEEE Symposium of Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG), 2007.

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University of New South Wales

Awards

CiSRA Best Research Paper Prize (2009)

Australian Postgraduate Award + NICTA Top-Up Scholarship

Dean s Honours List (2004, 2005, 2006)

Co-op Scholarship in Computer Science

University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Academic

Experience

Postdoctoral Research Fellow May 2011 to present

Working with Professor Michael Bowling and the Atari Research Group on topics

related to reinforcement learning, game tree search, data compression and Monte-

Carlo tree search.

University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW, Australia

Teaching Assistant March 2008 to July 2010

Assisted Alan Blair in COMP3411: Arti cial Intelligence (2008-2010)

National ICT Australia, Kensington, NSW, Australia

Professional

Experience

Research Engineer January 2006 - July 2007

Provided programming support for the SMLKA group.

Smarts Pty Ltd, Sydney, NSW Australia

Software Engineer July 2004 to December 2005

C/C++ server-side programming.

Programming Languages:

Technical

Skills C/C++ (incl. Boost), Lua, Perl, Lisp, C#, L TEX

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Operating Systems:

Windows/Linux

Reviewer/Program Chair:

Community

Service

NIPS (2009), IJCAI (2011), AISTATS (2011), ICML (2012).

Australian

Citizenship

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