Padmini Rajagopalan
Postdoctoral Alumni, Ph.D. Alumni
My interests lie in neuroevolution and evolutionary algorithms. At UT Austin, I worked on the simulation of predator-prey behavior in nature, focusing on the complex predatory and social behaviors of spotted hyenas. This project was in collaboration with Prof. Kay Holekamp at Michigan State University under BEACON, a Science and Technology Center funded by NSF.
Publications
Evolution of Complex Coordinated Behavior 2020
Padmini Rajagopalan, Kay E. Holekamp and Risto Miikkulainen, In 2020 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), July 2020.
Factors that Affect the Evolution of Complex Cooperative Behavior 2019
Padmini Rajagopalan, Kay E. Holekamp and Risto Miikkulainen, In The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2019), pp. 333--340, July 2019.
The Evolution of Coordinated Cooperative Behaviors 2016
Padmini Rajagopalan, PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin.
General Intelligence through Prolonged Evolution of Densely Connected Neural Networks 2014
Padmini Rajagopalan, Aditya Rawal, Kay E. Holekamp and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2014), Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 2014.
The Evolution of General Intelligence 2014
Padmini Rajagopalan, Kay E. Holekamp and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of The Fourteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE 14), New York, NY 2014.
Evolution of a Communication Code in Cooperative Tasks 2012
Aditya Rawal, Padmini Rajagopalan, Risto Miikkulainen and Kay Holekamp, In Artificial Life (13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems), East Lansing, Michigan, USA 2012.
Multiagent Learning through Neuroevolution 2012
Risto Miikkulainen, Eliana Feasley, Leif Johnson, Igor Karpov, Padmini Rajagopalan, Aditya Rawal, and Wesley Tansey, In Advances in Computational Intelligence, J. Liu et al. (Eds.), Vol. LNCS 7311, pp. 24-46, Berlin, Heidelberg: 2012. Springer.
The Role of Reward Structure, Coordination Mechanism and Net Return in the Evolution of Cooperation 2011
Padmini Rajagopalan, Aditya Rawal, Risto Miikkulainen, Marc A. Wiseman and Kay E. Holekamp, In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2011), Seoul, South Korea 2011.
Constructing Competitive and Cooperative Agent Behavior Using Coevolution 2010
Aditya Rawal, Padmini Rajagopalan and Risto Miikkulainen, In IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2010), Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2010.
Projects
The Role of Emotion and Communication in Cooperative Behavior 2013 - 2016
Learning Strategic Behavior in Sequential Decision Tasks 2009 - 2014
Coevolution of Competitive and Cooperative Agent Behavior 2009 - Present
Areas of Interest
Artificial Life
Demos
Factors that Affect the Evolution of Complex Cooperative BehaviorPadmini Rajagopalan2020
Cooperation to Overcome a More Powerful AdversaryKay Holekamp2012
The Role of Reward Structure, Coordination Mechanism and Net Return in the Evolution of CooperationPadmini Rajagopalan, Aditya Rawal2011
Emergence of Competitive and Cooperative Behavior and Arms Race Through CoevolutionAditya Rawal, Padmini Rajagopalan2010
Labs
Formerly affiliated with Neural Networks