Scholar
Adam White
Google Scholar ID: 1GqGhcsAAAAJ
University of Alberta, Amii (Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute)
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,766
H-index
23
i10-index
43
Publications
20
Co-authors
9
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Research Experience
- Associate Professor, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta
- Canada CIFAR AI Chair
- Director of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii)
- Principal Investigator (PI) of the Reinforcement Learning and Artificial Intelligence Lab (RLAI)
- Pioneered real-world applications of reinforcement learning in drinking and wastewater treatment plants
Background
- Research interests include Continual Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Knowledge Representation, and Intrinsic Motivation.
- Focused on understanding fundamental principles of learning in both simulated environments and industrial control applications.
- Models intelligence as a reinforcement-learning agent continually interacting with an unknown environment and learning from a scalar reward signal rather than explicit feedback.
- Passionate about strong empirical practices and new methodologies to assess real-world readiness of algorithms.
- Co-founder of RL Core Technologies, a startup applying AI and machine learning to industrial control.
