Contact Information

• Name: Alborz Geramifard
• Office: 32-D631
• Phone: 617.452.2399
• Email: agf[at]mit[dot]edu
• Homepage

Education

• Ph.D. Candidate in Aeronautics & Astronautics, MIT
• M.S. Computer Science, University of Alberta - 2006
• B.S. Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology - 2003

Research Interests

• Reinforcement Learning, Feature Discovery
• Planning, Brain and Cognitive Science

Selected Publications

1. R. He, A. Bachrach, M. Achtelik, A. Garamifard, D. Gurdan,, S. Prentice, J. Stumpf, N. Roy, "On the Design and Use of a Micro Air Vehicle to Track and Avoid Adversaries",Inernational Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2008 [pdf]


2. R. Sutton, Cs. Szepesvári, A. Geramifard and M. Bowling, "Dyna-Style Planning with Linear Function Approximation and Prioritized Sweeping", Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), pages 528-536, 2008, [28% acceptance] [pdf]


3. M. Bowling, A. Geramifard, D. Wingate, "Sigma Point Policy Iteration", Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems(AAMAS), pages 379-386, 2008, To appear [22% acceptance] [pdf]


4. A. Geramifard, M. Bowling, M. Zinkevich, R. Sutton, "iLSTD: Eligibility Traces & Convergence Analysis ", In B. Schölkopf and J.C. Platt and T. Hofmann editors, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19 (NIPS), pages 440-448, 2007. [24% acceptance] [pdf]


5. A. Geramifard, M. Bowling, R. Sutton, "Incremental Least-Square Temporal Difference Learning", Proceedings of 21t Conference, American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pages 356-361, 2006. [30% acceptance] [pdf]

Selected Awards

• [2009-2011] Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) - 3 Years
• [2004-2007] Monbusho Scholarship, PhD, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan - 4 Years [declined]
• [Summer 2003] Championship of RoboCup Rescue-Simulation, Padova, Italy

Other Links

• UAV SWARM Health Management Project