Masters in Reinforcement Learning

[aman neelappa]

Hi all,

I am a final year undergraduate student at BITS Pilani (India). I am
interested in pursuing graduate studies in the field of machine
learning and RL in particular. It would be really helpful if you could
suggest some good graduate schools in this field.
Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

-Aman

[Hengshuai Yao]

Hi, Aman, 

this reminds my similar days looking for supervisors.
Here is Rich's page on RLAI research in the world: http://rlai.cs.ualberta.ca/RLAI/rlai.html

The list is not comprehensive though. 

You can read Michael Littman and his colleage's survey paper: "reinforcement learning: a survey", to get an idea on the RL researchers and historical development of RL.

Also, check the RL papers in the ICML and NIPS proceedings of recent years.

Visit the home pages of whom you found, and read their recent papers to see whose papers they cite. 

--
Sincerely,

yours Hengshuai

[Ni Yaodong]

Hi Hengshuai,

I hear of your good news on NIPS. Con!

Yaodong

[Torbjorn Dahl]

Hello Aman

 

I would recommend the MSc in Advanced Computing MS51 (Machine Learning and Data Mining) at my alma mater, the University of Bristol in the UK.

The course leader is Dr Tim Kovacs who has a long research track record in Reinforcement Learning.

Bristol also made it to the 34th spot in the Times' world university rankig published on October 8th, which speaks a lot for the quality its courses. 

 

Best regards,

Torbjorn Dahl

Reader in Cognitive Robotics

University of Wales, Newport

[aman313]

Thanks all for your instant and informative responses.

@Hengshuai: Thanks for the info and the links. I shall follow them up.
And i have gone through Littman's paper - in fact i think it had
sparked my interest in the field !
@Torbjorn: The course looks really good. But it looks to be a one year
course. Would not a two-year course have deeper coverage of the field?

Thanks again everyone!!
-Aman

PS: Any other suggestions too are most welcome

On Oct 9, 2:06 pm, Torbjorn Dahl <torbjorn.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Aman
>
> I would recommend the MSc in Advanced Computing MS51 (Machine Learning and

> Data Mining) <http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/Teaching/MachineLearning/> at my alma

> mater, the University of Bristol in the UK.
> The course leader is Dr Tim Kovacs who has a long research track record in
> Reinforcement Learning.
> Bristol also made it to the 34th spot in the Times' world university rankig
> published on October 8th, which speaks a lot for the quality its courses.
>
> Best regards,
> Torbjorn Dahl
> Reader in Cognitive Robotics
> University of Wales, Newport
>

[Chuck Anderson]

The Department of Computer Science has 6 faculty out of 18 that are in
AI and 4 of whom do machine learning. We have had quite a few masters
and PhD students focus in machine learning and some in reinforcement
learning. Relevant web pages are

http://www.cs.colostate.edu
http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~anderson
http://www.cs.colostate.edu/aigroup.html