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Homepage of Csaba Szepesvári

Associate Professor (Ingenuity New Faculty)
Department of Computing Science
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2E8
Office: 311 Athabasca Hall
Email: szepesva AT cs DOT ualberta DOT ca
Phone: (780) 492-8581
Fax: (780) 492-1071
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Who am I?

Professionally: Faculty at the Department of Computing Science and a PI at AICML. Member of RLAI.
On leave from SZTAKI. My old homepage there.

Personally: Husband of my lovely wife Beáta and proud dad of Dávid, Réka, Eszter and Csongor.
If nothing but they make sure that my brain is kept immersed in a "persistently exciting" environment!

Csaba's family

News

  • Recently I have finished an RL overview paper, which I will keep updating for a while and then I will eventually send it to some journal. The target audience is students and researchers interested in algorithms of reinforcement learning. The survey is fairly comprehensive, yet I tried to keep it succinct (50 pages without references, 65 pages with references). Comments, suggestions are welcome.
  • I am teaching CMPUT 412, Undergraduate robotics. I have decided to write up lecture notes for the course, which will be posted to the website. Stay tuned.
  • I am looking for prospective grad students who are interested in joining the Statistical Machine Learning degree specialization program, which is a joint program between our department and the MathStat department. Further info here. Reasons to consider this specialization
  • Gradient Descent Methods for Reinforcement Learning , talk at WUSTL (13/11/2009)
  • Cryptography and beyond: my "Lunch and Learn" seminar (29/07/2009)
  • Responding to an emergency situation, I have spent a few hours by searching on the IEEE website to collect recent references on applications of RL. Here are the results which are now linked to the page on Successes of RL. See also Satinder's similarly titled page here.

CMPUT 412 class final project demo video by Eszter and Reka.