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.
For an overview of the ML papers from UMass in 2021, see our 2021 retrospective here.
Bruno Castro da Silva | Co-director | bsilva@cs.umass.edu | |
Philip S. Thomas | Co-director | pthomas@cs.umass.edu |
Matt Lustig | Grants and Contracts Coordinator | mllustig@cs.umass.edu |
Blossom Metevier | PhD Student | bmetevier@cs.umass.edu | |
James Kostas | PhD Student | jekostas@cs.umass.edu | |
Aline Weber | PhD Student | alineweber@cs.umass.edu | |
Dhawal Gupta | PhD Student | dgupta@cs.umass.edu | |
Shreyas Chaudhari | PhD Student | schaudhari@cs.umass.edu | |
Will Schwarzer | PhD Student | wschwarzer@cs.umass.edu | |
John Raisbeck | PhD Student | jraisbeck@cs.umass.edu | |
Alexandra Burushkina | PhD Student | aburushkina@cs.umass.edu | |
Norman Renhao Zhang | PhD Student | renhaozhang@cs.umass.edu |
Sridhar Mahadevan | Director
Not accepting new students |
mahadeva@cs.umass.edu | |
Andrew Barto | Founder
Not accepting new students |
barto@cs.umass.edu |
Name | Adviser | Year | Current Website |
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Chris Nota | Philip S. Thomas | 2023 | link |
Scott Jordan | Philip S. Thomas | 2022 | link |
Yash Chandak | Philip S. Thomas | 2022 | link |
Stephen Giguere | Philip S. Thomas | 2021 | link |
Francisco Garcia | Philip S. Thomas | 2019 | link |
Clemens Rosenbaum | Sridhar Mahadevan | 2019 | link |
Ian Gemp | Sridhar Mahadevan | 2019 | link |
Thomas Boucher | Sridhar Mahadevan | 2018 | link |
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 | link |
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 | link |
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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Sarah Brockman | P. S. Thomas | 2019 | BS |
Michael Amirault | P. S. Thomas | 2018 | BS |
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 |
Prof. da Silva will be accepting one student. Prof. Thomas will not be recruiting doctoral students for Fall 2024. During years that we are recruiting, submit your application here. If you mention the lab directors and your interest in the lab in your application, we will be notified and will look through your application materials.
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.