Welcome to Joshua B. Evans' Homepage
Artificial Intelligence - Reinforcement Learning - Skill Discovery
Department of Computer Science, University of Bath
I'm a Lecturer and PhD researcher at the
University of Bath,
where I work with the
Bath Reinforcement Learning
Laboratory under the supervision of
Professor Özgür Şimşek.
My research focuses on developing AI agents capable of incrementally learning complex behaviours, or
skills
, through interaction with their environments. Most of my
work is done within the framework of
reinforcement learning
.
My wider research interests include:
> Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
> Graph-Based Skill Discovery Methods
> Nature and Human-Inspired Skill Discovery
> Intrinsically-Motivated Reinforcement Learning
> World Models and Representation Learning
I'm the unit convenor for the University's popular on-campus reinforcement learning units (
CM50270/
CM30359), and the author of
the online version of these units for the University's
online MSc AI programme.
I also supervise BSc, MComp, and MSc dissertation projects. You can see a list of students and projects I have
supervised in the past
here. If you are a student interested in
undertaking a reinforcement learning project, please get in touch!
This website contains links to my research, news and updates, and a personal blog.
Whatever you came here for, I hope that you find this website useful!
