Talks & Presentations
A collection of slides and recordings from talks and presentations I've given at conferences, workshops, and other events.
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Oral Presentations
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Pareto Optimal Preference Learning with Hidden Context
NeurIPS Pluralistic Alignment Workshop
December 2024 🇨🇦 Vancouver, Canada
RL Conference - RL Safety Workshop
August 2024 🇺🇸 Amherst, MA
Presentation on our work on learning from diverse human preferences with hidden contextual factors.
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Solving Deceptive Problems Without Explicit Diversity Maintenance
NeurIPS Agent Learning in Open-Endedness Workshop
December 2023 🇺🇸 New Orleans, LA
A presentation on our approach to solving deceptive problems by implicitly maintaining population diversity.
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The Emergence of Diversity
2023 Conference on Artificial Life
July 2023 🇯🇵 Sapporo, Japan
Lightning talk for the Emerging Researchers in Artificial Life session on the emergence of diversity in artificial systems.
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Poster Presentations
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Encouraging Diversity in Reinforcement Learning with Lexicase Selection
RL at Harvard Workshop 2023
November 2023 🇺🇸 Cambridge, MA
Poster presentation on applying lexicase selection to reinforcement learning to encourage diverse agent behaviors.
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Think Before You Act: Generating High-Quality Diverse Reasoning Policies
SoCal Undergraduate Research Symposium 2023
May 2023 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, CA
Poster presentation on methods for generating diverse reasoning policies that improve decision quality.
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Invited Talks
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Evolutionary Computation
UMass Amherst Guest Lecture
Spring 2023 🇺🇸 Amherst, MA
Guest lecture for COMPSCI 389 - Introduction to Machine Learning on foundational concepts in evolutionary computation.
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Lexicase Selection and Reinforcement Learning
Personal Autonomous Robotics Lab (PeARL), UT Austin
Fall 2022 🇺🇸 Austin, TX
Autonomous Learning Laboratory, UMass Amherst
Spring 2023 🇺🇸 Amherst, MA
A talk on applying lexicase selection to reinforcement learning problems to generate diverse policies.
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Lexicase Selection and the Diversity of Quality
Adaptive and Intelligent Robotics Lab, Imperial College London
Summer 2022 🇬🇧 London, UK
A talk on leveraging lexicase selection to maintain diverse, high-quality solutions in evolutionary algorithms.
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Evolutionary Algorithms
United Arab Emirates Ministry of Artificial Intelligence
Fall 2020 🇦🇪 Dubai, UAE
An introduction to evolutionary algorithms and their applications in optimization and machine learning.
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