Joel Lehman
Postdoctoral Alumni
Joel got his PhD with Ken Stanley at UCF in 2012, focusing on novelty search in neuroevolution. He was a Research Educator in the Freshman Research Initiative program at UT, teaching the "Computational Intelligence in Game Design" stream. His research goal is to write algorithms inspired by natural evolution that continually produce a wild diversity of interesting and complex things. After UT he went to a faculty position at the IT University of Copenhagen.
Homepage:
http://joellehman.com
Publications
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Designing Neural Networks through Evolutionary Algorithms 2019
Kenneth O. Stanley, Jeff Clune, Joel Lehman, and Risto Miikkulainen, Nature Machine Intelligence, Vol. 1 (2019), pp. 24–35.
Tradeoffs in Neuroevolutionary Learning-Based Real-Time Robotic Task Design in the Imprecise Computation Framework 2019
Pei-Chi Huang, Luis Sentis, Joel Lehman, Chien-Liang Fok, Aloysius K. Mok, Risto Miikkulainen, ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, Vol. 3 (2019). DOI 0.1145/3178903.
Learning Behavior Characterizations for Novelty Search 2016
Elliot Meyerson, Joel Lehman and Risto Miikkulainen, To Appear In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2016), Denver, Colorado 2016. ACM.
Extinction Events Can Accelerate Evolution 2015
Joel Lehman and Risto Miikkulainen, PLoS ONE, Vol. 10(8) (2015), pp. e0132886 https://doi.org/10.13.
Enhancing Divergent Search through Extinction Events 2015
Joel Lehman and Risto Miikkulainen, To Appear In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2015), Madrid, Spain 2015.
General Video Game Playing as a Benchmark for Human-Competitive AI 2015
Joel Lehman and Risto Miikkulainen, In AAAI-15 Workshop on Beyond the Turing Test 2015.
An Anarchy of Methods: Current Trends in How AI is Abstracted in AI 2014
Joel Lehman, Jeff Clune and Sebastian Risi, Intelligent Systems magazine, Vol. 29, 6 (2014), pp. 56-62.
Grasping Novel Objects with a Dexterous Robotic Hand through Neuroevolution 2014
Pei-Chi Huang, Joel Lehman, Aloysius K. Mok, Risto Miikkulainen, Luis Sentis, In IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2014. IEEE.
Overcoming Deception in Evolution of Cognitive Behaviors 2014
Joel Lehman and Risto Miikkulainen, To Appear In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2014), Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 2014.
A Neuroevolution Approach to General Atari Game Playing 2013
Matthew Hausknecht, Joel Lehman, Risto Miikkulainen, and Peter Stone, IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games (2013).
Boosting Interactive Evolution using Human Computation Markets 2013
Joel Lehman and Risto Miikkulainen, To Appear In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computation, pp. 18 pages 2013. Springer.
Effective Diversity Maintenance in Deceptive Domains 2013
Joel Lehman, Kenneth O. Stanley and Risto Miikkulainen, To Appear In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2013 2013.
Neuroevolution 2013
Joel Lehman and Risto Miikkulainen, Scholarpedia, Vol. 8, 6 (2013), pp. 30977.
Projects
The Role of Emotion and Communication in Cooperative Behavior 2013 - 2016
Learning Strategic Behavior in Sequential Decision Tasks 2009 - 2014
Areas of Interest
Cognitive Science Evolutionary Computation Game Playing Neuroevolution Robotics
Demos
A Neuroevolution Approach to General Atari Game PlayingMatthew Hausknecht2013
Labs
Formerly affiliated with Neural Networks