News

October 2009: Kurt Dresner successfully defended his dissertation on "Autonomous Intersection Management." [Project Page]

July 2009: David Pardoe, Doran Chakraborty, and I won first Trading Agent Competition on Ad Auctions with our agent TacTex-2009.

May 2009: Todd Hester, Michael Quinlan and I, along with Mohan Sridharan from Texas Tech, won the 2009 US Open RoboCup competition with our team TT-UT Austin Villa. [details and video highlights]

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I am the founder and director of the Learning Agents Research Group (LARG) within the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin.

My main research interest in AI is understanding how we can best create complete intelligent agents. I consider adaptation, interaction, and embodiment to be essential capabilites of such agents. Thus, my research focuses mainly on machine learning, multiagent systems, and robotics. To me, the most exciting research topics are those inspired by challenging real-world problems. I believe that complete successful research includes both precise, novel algorithms and fully implemented and rigorously evaluated applications. My application domains have included robot soccer, autonomous bidding agents, autonomous vehicles, autonomic computing, and social agents.