Eric Wiewiora

ewiewior@cs.ucsd.edu
Ph.D Student
Computer Science and Engineering Department
University of California, San Diego

Mail to:
Eric Wiewiora
UCSD/CSE-AP&M
9500 Gilman Drive, Dept. 0114
La Jolla, California 92093-0114

Interests

• Reinforcment Learning
• Stochastic Processes
• Planning and Scheduling Algorithms
• Statistical Learning Theory
• Learning Motor Control

Education

• BS from the University of Pittsburgh, 2001
  • Major: Computer science
  • Minor: Neurosscience
  • Magna Cum Laude
  • Member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Golden Key National Honor Society
• MS from the Unversity of California, San Diego, 2004
  • Thesis Topic: Efficient Exploration for Reinforcement Learning

Publications

1. Bala Kalyanasundarum and Eric Wiewiora. "Dynamic Spectrum Allocation" University of Pittsburgh Undergraduate Research Fair. March, 2000.
2. Kirk Pruhs and Eric Wiewiora. "Evaluating the Local Ratio Algorithm for Dynamic Storage", 4th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments Jan 2002.
3. Eric Wiewiora, Garrison Cottrell and Charles Elkan. "Principled Methods for Advising Reinforcement Learning Agents", Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on machine Learning. August, 2003.
4. Eric Wiewiora. "Potential-Based Shaping and Q-Value Initialization are Equivalent", to appear in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2003.