Matthew E. Taylor

matthew.e.taylor@wsu.edu

Adjunct Professor
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164
 
Director of the IRL Lab





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Research

I have worked with Milind Tambe as part of the TEAMCORE research group and am also a former member of the Learning Agents Research Group, directed by Peter Stone.

My research focuses on agents, physical or virtual entities that interact with their environments. My main goals are to enable individual agents, and teams of agents, to

  1. learn tasks in real world environments that are not fully known when the agents are designed;
  2. perform multiple tasks, rather than just a single task; and
  3. allow agents to robustly coordinate with, and reason about, other agents.
Additionally, I am interested in exploring how agents can learn from humans, whether the human is explicitly teaching the agent, the agent is passively observing the human, or the agent is actively cooperating with the human on a task.

A selection of current research projects can be found at the IRL Lab website.


Teaching

Currently: none
 
Previous courses:
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CV

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Code

Links

Brief Biography

Matthew E. Taylor graduated magna cum laude with a double major in computer science and physics from Amherst College in 2001. After working for two years as a software developer, he began his Ph.D. work at the University of Texas at Austin with an MCD fellowship from the College of Natural Sciences. He received his doctorate from the Department of Computer Sciences in the summer of 2008, supervised by Peter Stone. Matt then completed a two year postdoctoral research position at the University of Southern California with Milind Tambe and spent 2.5 years as an assistant professor at Lafayette College in the computer science department. He is currently an assistant professor at Washington State University in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award. Current research interests include intelligent agents, multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning, transfer learning, and robotics.