Samuel Barrett

Contact Information

About Me

I am a fourth year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. I am interested in artificial intelligence and I am currently working in the area of ad hoc teams and reinforcement learning. My advisor is Peter Stone, and I am a member of the Learning Agents Research Group (LARG). I am part of the UT Austin Villa robot soccer team, which competes in the Standard Platform League. I helped the team make it to the 2011 Quarterfinals, win the 2010 US Open, and place third in the 2010 Robocup in Singapore. I received my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology in May, 2008.

Research

My research interests are in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics. My current focus is on ad hoc teams; I am interested in how agents should learn to deal with unknown teammates to accomplish shared goals. My goal is to create agents that can cooperate with any other teammates in a new environment and can still learn to perform effectively. Currently, I am working on applying reinforcement learning techniques to enable these agents to learn and adapt. If you are interested, take a look at my publications.

Professional

• Resume
• Publications
• REU website at Utah State University

Personal

• Color Sudoku: A color based version of Sudoku that I created.
• Stock market game: A site for playing a stock morket game I created.
• Pictures: Some of the pictures I've taken.

Family

• My family's website
• My brother
• My father
• My sister
• My brother in law