Matthew E. Taylor
Scholar

Matthew E. Taylor

Google Scholar ID: edQgLXcAAAAJ
Professor, University of Alberta
artificial intelligenceintelligent agentsmulti-agent systemsreinforcement learningrobotics
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
8,357
 
H-index
41
 
i10-index
113
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
103
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • 1. PI or co-PI on over $6M USD in competitively awarded research funding from federal, state, and industrial sources, including the National Science Foundation CAREER award.
  • 2. (Co-)supervised 7 graduated PhD students and 5 MS students.
  • 3. Published over 120 peer-reviewed papers in conferences and journals.
Research Experience
  • 1. 2008-2010: Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Southern California, working with Milind Tambe.
  • 2. Served as an assistant professor for 2.5 years at Lafayette College.
  • 3. Assistant Professor at Washington State University, holding the Allred Distinguished Professorship in Artificial Intelligence.
  • 4. In 2017, temporarily left academia to help start an artificial intelligence lab in Edmonton, Alberta, with Borealis AI, the research lab for the Royal Bank of Canada.
  • 5. Now a tenured associate professor in computer science at the University of Alberta, a Fellow-in-Residence at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, and remains an adjunct professor at Washington State University.
Education
  • PhD: Summer 2008, The University of Texas at Austin, Advisor: Peter Stone
Background
  • Research Interests: Reinforcement learning, human-in-the-loop AI, multi-agent systems, and robotics. Professional Field: Computer Science. Brief Introduction: Currently a tenured associate professor in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta, and the Director of the IRL Lab.
Miscellany
  • Personal interests and other information not provided.