Associate Professor
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science
Oregon State University
Office Location: 2071 Kelley Engineering Center
(541) 737-9202 (office)(I never check
phone messages, send an email instead)
(541) 737-1300 (fax)
E-mail: afern@eecs.oregonstate.edu
Postal Address: Kelley Engineering Center, Corvallis, OR 97330-5501, U.S.A.
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B.S.
Electrical Engineering, University of Maine, 1997 |
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M.S.
Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 2000 |
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Ph.D.
Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 2004 (advised by Robert Givan) |
My primary research interests are in the field of artificial
intelligence, where I focus on the sub-areas of machine learning, automated
planning, and computer vision. I am particularly interested in the intersection
of these areas. Some example projects include:
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Digital Scout
Project: where we study computer vision and machine learning techniques
for interpreting raw video of American football, basketball, and other sports.
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Learning to
Speedup Automated Planning Algorithms: where we study how to speed up planning
performance in both deterministic and stochastic domains by learning from past
planning experience.
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Integrating
Expressive Feedback into Reinforcement and Imitation Learning: where we study
how to learn from richer forms of feedback and interaction than considered in
traditional imitation and reinforcement learning.
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Anomaly Detection
and Explanation: were we study how to best detect and explain anomalies with a
particular focus on insider threat detection.
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Automated
Planning for Complex Experimental Design: where we study planning and learning algorithms
for planning out the experimental activities with the goal of maximizing some
experimental objective. Bioengineering is one application domain that motivates
this work.
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Large Scale
Stochastic Planning: where we study planning algorithms for scaling to very large
stochastic domains.
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