Selected Talks and Tutorials

  • "Representation Discovery in Sequential Decision Making", Senior Member talk, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Atlanta, July 2010.

  • "New Frontiers in Representation Discovery", Department of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, October 2009.

  • "Spectral Representations and Invariant Spaces", CSAIL Seminar, MIT, April 4th, 2008.

  • "Hearing the Shape of a State Space", Intelligence Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, Machine Learning Department, March 18th, 2008.

  • "Representation Discovery using Harmonic Analysis", Intel Research, Santa Clara, February 22nd, 2008.

  • "Representation Discovery using Harmonic Analysis", Center for Intelligent Machines Seminar, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, February 19th, 2008.

  • Tutorial on New Frontiers in Representation Discovery , AAAI 2007, Vancouver, Canada, July 23rd 2007.

  • Tutorial on Learning Representations for Markov Decision Processes and Reinforcement Learning , IJCAI 2007, Hyderabad, India, January 2007.

  • "Learning Representation and Behavior: A Unified Framework for the Credit Assignment Problem", MIT CSAIL Seminar, October 18, 2006.

  • "Beyond Eigenvectors: Feature Discovery using Multiscale Diffusion on Graphs", DARPA ISAT Workshop on Adaptive and Interactive Representations, MIT CSAIL, July 11th, 2006

  • Tutorial on Manifold and Spectral Methods for Markov Decision Processes , International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), June, 2006, CMU

  • "Learning Representation and Behavior: Manifold and Spectral Methods for Markov Decision Processes and Reinforcement Learning", NSF Workshop on Approximate Dynamic Programming, April 3-6, 2006, Cocoyoc, Mexico.

  • "Proto-Value Functions: Learning Representation and Behavior", Yale University Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium, October 26, 2005,

  • "Representation Policy Iteration: A Unified Framework for Learning Representation and Behavior" , Invited talk given at National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2005)