Projects & Collaborators

Research projects I'm undertaking, and who I'm undertaking them with.

Projects

• Robust LLM-based AI
• What does AI's success at game playing tell us?
• Modeling social processes in games

Until I get a chance to make pages for more of my projects, see my publication list for others.

Students

Current:

• Emma Taylor: MS thesis student, Fall 2024 – present
• Javad Rajabi: Graduate research assistant, Fall 2023 – present
• Chris Pedretti: Undergraduate research assistant, Spring 2024 – present

Recent past:

• Yifei Wang: Graduate research assistant, Fall 2022 – Spring 2023
• David Dunleavy: Graduate research assistant, Fall 2020 – Spring 2022
• Shi Johnson-Bey: Visiting PhD student (from UC Santa Cruz), Summer 2021
• Ilia Kowalzik: Graduate research assistant, Spring 2021

Collaborators

Current:

• Adam Gaier, Autodesk AI Lab
• Swen Gaudl, University of Gothenburg
• Amy K. Hoover, New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Yiannis Koutis, New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Joel Lehman, CarperAI
• Elliot Meyerson, Cognizant AI Labs
• Ben Samuel, University of New Orleans
• Mike Treanor, American University

Past:

• TODO, for now see coauthor sidebars on DBLP or Google Scholar.

Labs & Resources

• Computing resources provided by Zorro, the American University high-performance computing cluster
• Student desk and equipment space in the Computer Science Grad Lab, DMTI 212
• Affiliated faculty at the AU Game Center, which has a variety of resources

Alumni

• David Dunleavy (MS, 2022) – Now on the OpenXLA team at Google

• Thorbjørn S. Nielsen (MS, 2015) – Now at Hutlihut Games
• Nina Croitoru (MS, 2013) – Now PhD student at the IT University of Copenhagen
• Simon Cutajar (MS, 2013) – Now at Resolution Games
• Martin Dejean (MS, 2013) – Now at Unity
• Tilman Geishauser (MS, 2013) – Now at KUKA
• Nils Iver Holtar (MS, 2013) – Now at Campfire Cabal
• Miika Pirtola (MS, 2013)
• Isaac Dart (MS, 2011)