News
December 2025: Along with colleagues at Sony AI, I published a paper that appeared on the cover of Nature on FHIBE: The Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark.
June 2025: I was honored to receive the ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award.
July 2024: Our joint RoboCup team with Josiah Hanna's lab at University of Wisconsin, called WisTex United, won the Challenge Shield competition of the Standard Platform League at RoboCup 2024.
July 2024: I was named Chief Scientist of Sony AI. Here's the press release.
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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, as well as Department Chair and
Founding Director of Texas Robotics.
I was a co-founder of Cogitai, Inc. and am now Chief Scientist of Sony AI.
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 capabilities 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, and human-interactive agents.
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I was a co-founder of Cogitai, Inc. and am now Chief Scientist of Sony AI.
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 capabilities 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, and human-interactive agents.
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See Short, Medium, or Long Professional Bio.
CV in PDF or HTML Format (as of Oct '25).
Read my Timeline.