Professor and Associate Chair (Research)
Office:
345 Athabasca
Email (in domain ualberta.ca): mmueller
Activities and Interests
Teaching: Cmput 496 and a
grad course on games in Winter 2018
Programming Club
meets Fridays at 3pm.
Come join the club, and maybe you can go to the
ACM-ICPC world finals
too! In any case, you are guaranteed to have fun and learn a lot.
You can also take
Cmput 403
for credit.
Research - main areas: Monte Carlo methods in game-tree search and planning;
massively parallel search; combinatorial game theory.
Research Group, current and previous members and visitors
May/June: trip to China for AlphaGo match,
Synced Global Machine Intelligence Summit,
and some research lab visits!
2014-2017: Serving as Associate Chair (Research).
2017 News
Apr 24: Congratulations Chao and Gaojian on your IJCAI papers!!!
Chao's paper, with Ryan Hayward, is titled
"Focused Depth-first Proof Number Search using Convolutional Neural Networks
for the Game of Hex".
Gaojian's paper, with Rob Holte, is
"Additive Merge-and-Shrink Heuristics for Diverse Action Costs".
Apr: the very busy term is finally over!
Mar/Apr: Reviewing for ICAPS and IJCAI.
Feb: Busy teaching 496 and 655.
Feb: Working on some IJCAI submissions.
Jan: Busy teaching 496 and 655.
Jan 26: Gaojian's ICAPS paper accepted! Congratulations!
Jan 2017: AlphaGo, playing under the handles magist and master,
beats all human opponents in fast games on two internet Go servers.
Score 60:0.
Game records
part 1
and
part 2.
2016 News
November/December: Still working on Cmput 496 development. Over 90 students registered! Twice as large as any existing 4th year course.
November/December: Guest teaching in 204, 366, and 609.
October: NSERC DG and RTI crunch time. Lots of files to review.
October: We're hiring in
(1) Natural Language Processing, (2) Systems Security, (3) Green and Sustainable Computing, (4) Robotics.
"Excellent candidates in other areas of Computing Science may also be considered."
September: Welcome Md Solimul Chowdhury! Solimul comes back from industry as a PhD student.
I co-supervise him together with
Jia You, who was Solimul's MSc supervisor.
September: Working on Cmput 496 development.
Aug 30: Chenjun passed his MSc exam today. Congratulations! He will stay here as a PhD student.
June/July: visiting DeepMind and attending ICAPS in London, then visiting family in Austria.
June 2: Abdallah gave his second talk, about the complexity of card games. Many of them are hard!
May 23: Our paper "Integrating factorization ranked features into MCTS: an experimental study" was accepted
for Computer Games Workshop at IJCAI. Congratulations Chenjun!
May 13: Abdallah gave a nice talk about connection games. See the
paper on arxiv.
May 9:
Abdallah Saffidine is visiting us for a month. Welcome back Abdallah!
May 2: Summer games research is starting. Welcome back Andrew and Yunpeng!
April 8: last day of classes.
March 25: Welcome new group member, MSc student Farhad Haqiqat!
March 8 - 15: tons of activities around the Lee Sedol - AlphaGo match. 4-1 for AlphaGo!
See my talk at Faculty of Science
and our video.
Some day I will list the press articles, too.
Jan 27: Huge Computer Go news today. In a paper
published in Nature,
a group at Google Deepmind led by
our PhD graduate David Silver and our former Postdoc Aja Huang describe
AlphaGo, the first
Professional Level Go Program!!! Congratulations!!!
Jan 4: Winter 2016 term starts. I am teaching Cmput 204 and 325.
