Autonomous Learning Laboratory
The Autonomous Learning Laboratory (ALL) conducts foundational artificial intelligence (AI) research, with emphases on AI safety and reinforcement learning (RL), and particularly the intersection of these two areas.
The long-term goals of the laboratory are to develop more capable artificial agents, ensure that systems that use artificial intelligence methods are safe and well-behaved, improve our understanding of biological learning and its neural basis, and to forge stronger links between studies of learning by computer scientists, engineers, neuroscientists, and psychologists.
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Philip S. Thomas | Co-Director | pthomas@cs.umass.edu |
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Sridhar Mahadevan | Co-Director
Not accepting new students |
mahadeva@cs.umass.edu |
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Andrew Barto | Director Emeritus
Not accepting new students |
barto@cs.umass.edu |
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Susan Overstreet | Grants and Contracts Coordinator | overstre@cs.umass.edu |
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Clemens Rosenbaum | PhD Candidate | cgbr@cs.umass.edu |
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Thomas Boucher | PhD Candidate | boucher@cs.umass.edu |
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Ian Gemp | PhD Candidate | impgemp@cs.umass.edu |
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Francisco Garcia | PhD Candidate | fmgarcia@cs.umass.edu |
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Stephen Giguere | PhD Candidate | sgiguere@cs.umass.edu |
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Chris Nota | PhD Student | cnota@cs.umass.edu |
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James Kostas | PhD Student | jkostas@cs.umass.edu |
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Yash Chandak | PhD Student | ychandak@cs.umass.edu |
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Blossom Metevier | PhD Student | bmetevier@cs.umass.edu |
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Scott Jordan | PhD Student | sjordan@cs.umass.edu |
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Sarah Brockman | Honors Project | brockman@umass.edu |
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Michael Amirault | Honors Project | mcamirault@umass.edu |
Name | Adviser | Year | Current Website |
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CJ Carey | Sridhar Mahadevan | 2017 | link |
Bo Liu | Sridhar Mahadevan | 2015 | link |
Chris Vigorito | Andrew Barto | 2015 | link |
Philip Thomas | Andrew Barto | 2015 | link |
Bruno Castro da Silva | Andrew Barto | 2015 | link |
William Dabney | Andrew Barto | 2014 | |
Scott Niekum | Andrew Barto | 2013 | link |
Yariv Z. Levy | Andrew Barto | 2012 | link |
Scott Kuindersma | Andrew Barto | 2012 | link |
George Konidaris | Andrew Barto | 2011 | link |
Jeffrey Johns | Sridhar Mahadevan | 2010 | |
Chang Wang | Sridhar Mahadevan | 2010 | link |
Alicia "Pippin" Peregrin Wolfe | Andrew Barto | 2010 | link |
Sarah Osentoski | Sridhar Mahadevan | 2009 | link |
Ashvin Shah | Andrew Barto | 2008 | link |
Özgür Şimşek | Andrew Barto | 2008 | link |
Khashayar Rohanimanesh | Sridhar Mahadevan | 2006 | |
Mohammad Ghavamzadeh | Sridhar Mahadevan | 2005 | link |
Anders Jonsson | Andrew Barto | 2005 | link |
Thomas Kalt | Andrew Barto | 2005 | |
Balaraman Ravindran | Andrew Barto | 2004 | link |
Michael Rosenstein | Andrew Barto | 2003 | |
Michael Duff | Andrew Barto | 2002 | |
Amy McGovern | Andrew Barto | 2002 | link |
Theodore Perkins | Andrew Barto | 2002 | link |
Doina Precup | Andrew Barto | 2000 | link |
Bob Crites | Andrew Barto | 1996 | |
S. J. Bradtke | Andrew Barto | 1994 | |
Satinder Singh | Andrew Barto | 1993 | link |
J. R. Backrach | Andrew Barto | 1992 | link |
Vijaykumar Gullapalli | Andrew Barto | 1992 | |
Robert A. Jacobs | Andrew Barto | 1990 | link |
J. S. Judd | Andrew Barto | 1988 | |
Charles W. Anderson | Andrew Barto | 1986 | link |
Richard S. Sutton | Andrew Barto | 1984 | link |
Name | Adviser | Year | Current Website |
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Jay Buckingham | Andrew Barto | ||
Michael Kositsky | Andrew Barto | 1998 - 2001 | |
Matthew Schlesinger | Andrew Barto | 1998 - 2000 | link |
Andrew H. Fagg | Andrew Barto | 1998 - 2004 | link |
Sascha E. Engelbrecht | Andrew Barto | 1996 - 2002 | |
Vijaykumar Gullapalli | Andrew Barto | 1992 - 1994 | |
Michael Jordan | Andrew Barto | link |
Name | Adviser | Year | Degree |
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Stefan Dernbach | Sridhar Mahadevan | 2015 | MS |
Jonathan Leahey | Sridhar Mahadevan | 2013 | MS |
Jie Chen | Sridhar Mahadevan | 2013 | MS |
Andrew Stout | Andrew Barto | 2011 | MS |
Armita Kaboli | Andrew Barto | 2011 | MS |
Peter Krafft | Andrew Barto | 2010 | BS |
Colin Barringer | Andrew Barto | 2007 | MS |
Suchi Saria | Sridhar Mahadevan | 2002 - 2004 | BS |
Eric Sondhi | Sridhar Mahadevan | BS | |
Ilya Scheidwasser | Sridhar Mahadevan | BS |
If you are interested in joining the Autonomous Learning Laboratory as a doctoral student, we encourage you to apply to the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Application instructions can be found here. In your application, mention that you would like to join the lab and we will look at your application. Notice that, although Philip Thomas may be taking students, both Andrew Barto and Sridhar Mahadevan will not be taking students at this time.
The Autonomous Learning Laboratory is not accepting applications for interns at any level at this time.
The Autonomous Learning Laboratory is not accepting applications for masters level positions at this time.
The Autonomous Learning Laboratory is not accepting applications for postdoctoral researchers at this time.