Diederik M. Roijers completed his master's in Computing Science at
Utrecht University before obtaining his Ph.D. in Artificial
Intelligence under the supervision of Shimon Whiteson and Frans A.
Oliehoek at the University of Amsterdam in 2016. He then joined the
University of Oxford as a postdoctoral research assistant. He was
awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant from the FWO (Research
Foundation - Flanders) and started as an FWO Postdoctoral Fellow at
the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in October 2016.
His research focuses on creating intelligent autonomous systems
that assist humans in solving complex problems, especially those
with multiple objectives. To this end, he focuses on
decision-theoretic planning and learning, which enable agents to
use mathematical models to reason about the environments in which
they operate. In the multi-objective problems he has been studying,
the agents produce a set of possibly optimal policies that offer
different trade-offs with respect to the objectives, to help users
make an informed decision.
Shimon Whiteson studied English and Computer Science at Rice
University before completing his doctorate in Computer Science
under the supervision of Peter Stone at the University of Texas at
Austin in 2007. He then spent eight years as an Assistant and then
an Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam before
joining the University of Oxford as an Associate Professor in 2015.
He was awarded an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research
Council in 2014.
His research focuses on artificial intelligence with the goal of
designing, analyzing, and evaluating the algorithms that enable
computational systems to acquire and execute intelligent behavior.
He is particularly interested in machine learning, with which
computers can learn from experience, and decision-theoretic
planning, with which they can reason about their goals and deduce
behavioral strategies that maximize their utility. In addition to
theoretical work on these topics, he has in recent years also
focused on applying them to practical problems in robotics and
search engine optimization.
Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech University of
Texas at Austin
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