Ryan Bahlous-Boldi

Invited Talks

A selection of invited presentations I've given at research labs, conferences, and academic institutions.

Evolutionary Computation

Spring 2023
UMass Amherst Guest Lecture
🇺🇸 Amherst, MA

Guest lecture for COMPSCI 389 - Introduction to Machine Learning on foundational concepts in evolutionary computation.

Lexicase Selection and Reinforcement Learning

Spring 2023
Autonomous Learning Laboratory, UMass Amherst
🇺🇸 Amherst, MA

Fall 2022
Personal Autonomous Robotics Lab (PeARL), UT Austin
🇺🇸 Austin, TX

A talk on applying lexicase selection to reinforcement learning problems to generate diverse policies.

Lexicase Selection and the Diversity of Quality

Summer 2022
Adaptive and Intelligent Robotics Lab, Imperial College London
🇬🇧 London, UK

A talk on leveraging lexicase selection to maintain diverse, high-quality solutions in evolutionary algorithms.

Evolutionary Algorithms

Fall 2020
United Arab Emirates Ministry of Artificial Intelligence
🇦🇪 Dubai, UAE

An introduction to evolutionary algorithms and their applications in optimization and machine learning.