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Welcome on my homepage. I'm an UvA PhD student employed by TNO, a Dutch research institute with over 5000 employees. My research interests include

• planning,
  
• reinforcement learning,
  
• knowledge representation.

More generally, my long-term research interest lies in 'strong AI', i.e., creating computer programs that match or exceed human intelligence (for every possible definition of the word 'intelligence'). I believe the best approach to achieve this lies in integrating different AI techniques. In this context, I'm especially interested in combining brute-force techniques with reasoning strategies to discover and exploit problem structure.

As of March 1, 2012, I'll be a postdoc at the University of Alberta in the group of Rich Sutton.

Recent News

December 2011:  Succesfully defended my thesis entitled "Reinforcement Learning under Space and Time Constraints".  
 
June 2011:   Our article "Exploiting Best-Match Equations for Efficient Reinforcement Learning" is published in the Journal of Machine Learning Research.  (see link below)

May 2011:   My promotion date is set at December 8, 2011.

JMLR article