Current Group Members

• Kunihito Hoki, Assistant Professor at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, visiting professor for 1.5 months, 2012.
• Abdallah Saffidine, PhD student from Université Paris Dauphine, one year visiting student, from 2011.
• Aja Huang, postdoc (joint with R. Hayward), from 2011.
• Saradha Sankaran, programmer/analyst from 2011.
• Jiaxing Song, MSc started 2010.
• Fan Xie, MSc started 2010.
• Hootan Nakhost, PhD started 2007.

Alumni

• Hilmar Finnsson, PhD student from University of Reykjavik, 3 months, 2011
• Henry Brausen, NSERC USRA student (joint with R. Hayward), summer 2011.
• Tomoyuki Kaneko, Assistant Professor from University of Tokyo, author of the top shogi program GPS shogi, was here for 2 months in 2011.
• Kazuki Yoshizoe, visiting professor from University of Tokyo, 2x2 months, 2011.
• David Tom, MSc 2010. David Tom's MSc thesis
• Broderick Arneson, Senior programmer/analyst 2010.
• Arpad Rimmel, Postdoc 2010. Now Postdoc at Paris Dauphine.
• Teri Drummond, undergraduate summer student 2010.
• Xiaozhen Niu PhD student 2004-2010.
• David Silver PhD 2009, co-supervised with Rich Sutton. Now Royal Society University Research Fellow at University College London. David Silver's PhD thesis
• Ling Zhao PhD student 2002-2009.
• Markus Enzenberger Senior programmer/analyst 2002-2009.
• Travis Dick, undergraduate summer student 2008, NSERC USRA summer student 2009.
• Adi Botea PhD 2006, co-supervised with Jonathan Schaeffer. Now Senior Researcher at NICTA, Australia.
• Akihiro Kishimoto PhD 2005. Now Assistant Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology.
• Zhichao Li: summer student / programmer, 2002 - 2005. Now at Bioware.
• Xiaozhen Niu MSc 2004.
• Mack Male: summer student 2004.
• Roy de Bruijn: summer student 2003, co-supervised with Rob Holte.
• Jianjun Zhou MSc 2003.
• Ling Zhao MSc 2002, co-supervised with Jonathan Schaeffer.
• Nathan Bullock MSc 2002, co-supervised with Jonathan Schaeffer.
• Theodore Tegos: MSc 2002, co-supervised with Jonathan Schaeffer.
• Andrew Creskey: summer student 2001, co-supervised with Rob Holte.

PhD defense, PhD candidacy, MSc Committees

• dspace query for recent committees at Alberta
• Junichi Hashimoto, JAIST, Feb 1, 2011, PhD defense
• Hilmar Finnsson, University of Reykjavik, July 2 2010, candidacy
• Guillaume Chaslot, PhD assessment committee, 2010
• Arpad Rimmel, PhD defense, Paris Sud, 2009

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