Current PhD Students

  • Kimberly Ferguson , PhD Candidate

  • Armita Kaboli, PhD student

  • Bo Liu, PhD student.

  • Peter Krafft, MS student

    Graduated PhD Students

  • Chang Wang , Ph.D. title: A Geometric Framework for Transfer Learning using Manifold Alignment. Currently, Research Staff Member, IBM Watson Research.

  • Jeff Johns , Ph.D. title: Basis Construction and Utilization in Markov Decision Processes using Graphs. Currently, postdoc, Department of Computer Science, Duke Univ.

  • Sarah Osentoski , Ph.D. title: Action-based Representation Discovery in Markov Decision Processes. Currently, postdoc, Department of Computer Science, Brown Univ.

  • Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Ph.D title: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning in Continuous State and Multiagent Environments. Researcher, INRIA, Lille, France.

  • Khashayar Rohanimanesh , PhD title: Concurrent Decision Making in Markov Decision Processes. Currently Postdoc, IESL Lab, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst

  • Georgios Theocharous , PhD title: Hierarchical Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes for Robot Navigation. Research Staff Member, Intel Research.

    Student Awards

    BS/MS Students

  • Suchi Saria, B.S. (Honors), Mount Holyoke, 2004. (now PhD student at Stanford)

  • Natalia Hernandez-Gardiol , B.S. (honors). Postdoc, MIT CSAIL Lab .

  • Ilya Schweidwasser, BS (NSF REU student).

  • Rajbala Makar, M.S., 2000, Agilent, CA.

  • Silviu Minut, M.S., 2000.

  • Nikfar Khaleeli, M.S. 1997. Now at Windriver Systems, CA.

  • Nicholas Marchalleck, M.S., 1997. Now at Cybear Systems, FL.