University of YorkDepartment of Computer Science
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Sam Devlin

Ph.D. Student,
A.I. Researcher

News

May 2013:
I have been awarded a Santander International Connections Award to visit Professor Kagan Tumer's lab at Oregon State University later this year.

Also a book review I wrote on Metareasoning: Thinking about Thinking has been published in the latest edition of the AISB Quarterly. A copy of the review is available here.

About Me

I am in the final year of study towards my PhD under the supervision of Daniel Kudenko.
I am a member of the Artificial Intelligence and Reinforcement Learning groups, in the Department of Computer Science, at the University of York.

I am currently writing up my thesis, co-organising the ALA workshop, and developing software for a new module on Multi-Agent Interactions and Games (MAIG). I recently gave a brief introduction to this module, available below:

Research Interests

  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Multi-Agent Systems
  • Reward Shaping
  • Game Theory
    (Behavioural and Classic)
  • Machine Learning
  • Planning

Contact Details

Tel: +44 (0)1904 325583
E-mail:sam.devlin@york.ac.uk
Office:CSE/206
Address:Department of Computer Science,
University of York,
Deramore Lane,
York.
YO10 5GH