FacultyAffiliated FacultyResearch Associates Graduate Students

 

Risto Miikkulainen

Office:

Taylor 4.142A

Email:

risto@cs.utexas.edu

Homepage:

cs.utexas.edu/users/risto/

Research Interests

My research focuses on neural networks and genetic algorithms. On one hand, the goal is to better understand human information processing, and on the other, to develop more intelligent artificial systems that learn and adapt by observing and interacting with the environment.

Projects

Neural Networks Research Group

Cognitive Science

Natural Language Processing

Concept and Schema Learning

Computational Neuroscience

Visual Cortex

Episodic Memory

Neuroevolution

Methods

Applications

Other

Self-Organization

Reinforcement Learning

Supervised Learning Applications

Research Staff

Lisa Redford

 

Graduate Students

 

Matt Alden

 

James Bednar

Joe Bruce

Bobby D. Bryant

Harold Chaput

Yoonsuck Choe

Tino Gomez

Lisa Kaczmarcyk

Rohit Kate

Marshal R. Mayberry, III

Paul McQuesten

Jefferson Provost

Kenneth Stanley

Tal Tversky

Shimon Whiteson

Hong Ming Yeh

Courses

CS 342

Neural Networks

CS 343

Artificial Intelligence

CS 381K

Artificial Intelligence

CS 394N

Neural Networks

CS 395T

Cognitive Science

CS 396

Research Practice and Experience

Selected Publications

Solving Non-Markovian Control Tasks with Neurorevolution

Disambiguation and Grammar as Emergent Soft Constraints

Convergence-Zone Episodic Memory: Analysis and Simulation

Visual Schemas in Neural Networks for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis