Eyal Amir (אייל אמיר), Assistant Professor

Computer Science Department, and Beckman Institute Affiliate
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Siebel Center, Rm 3314
201 N. Goodwin road
Urbana, IL 61801-2302
Office phone: (217) 333-8756
Office fax: (217) 265-6591
Office hours: Thu 1pm-2pm
Secretary: Donna Coleman, Siebel 2120
eyal@cs.uiuc.edu

My administrative web page

Research Abstract [Research Abstract]

Publications [Publications]

Research Group [Research Group]

Projects and Grants [Major Projects]

Q&A 4 Students [Resources for Students]

Current Classes [Current Classes]

Previous Classes

News

My work with Mark Richards on Opponent Modeling in Scrabble received attention and articles in the media:

A Computer Magazine article by Linda Daily Paulson (Mar. 2007)

A Daily Illini article by Kristen Sackley (Feb. 2007)

A New Scientist Magazine article by Duncan Graham-Rowe (Jan. 2007)

Research

I work on artificial intelligence with emphasis on building applied systems that make use of knowledge when devising their actions. In this pursuit I use principled, mathematical tools from logic, probability theory, and decision theory together with insights from cognitive science. Technically, my effort focuses on automatic reasoning, representing and using commonsense knowledge and relational uncertain knowledge, autonomous agent control and architectures, planning and rational decision making, and learning explicit knowledge in dynamic settings. I am also interested in graph algorithms, building large commonsense knowledge bases, and reactive systems. I am interested in applications of those in robotics, machine learning, vision, virtual worlds, and computer games, and building human-level AI programs.

Publications and Manuscripts

List of papers I wrote

Curriculum vitae in PDF and postscript. (updated May 30, 2005)

Short biography

My Research Group

My research group has a dedicated web page that is due to the diligence of Ben Liebald.

Current Group Members

Tsvi Achler, Postdoc, Ph.D., MD

Jaesik Choi , Ph.D. student

Abner Guzman-Rivera , Ph.D. student

Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Ph.D. student

Deepak Ramachandran, Ph.D. student

Mark Richards, Ph.D. student

Afsaneh Shirazi, Ph.D. student

Working with My Group

Po-Ming Lee (NCTU - National Chao-Tung University, Taiwan)

Former Members

Alok Baikadi (BS 2006; Now a Ph.D. student at North Carolina State)

Rodrigo Braz (Ph.D. 2007; Now at University of California, Berkeley)

Allen Chang (MS 2006; Now at Palantir)

Igor Gammer (MS 2007)

David Hill (Ph.D. 2007; Now at NCSA)

Brian Hlubocky (MS 2005; now at Wolverine Trading)

Ben Liebald (Now at Google)

Megan Nance (BS 2005; now at Google)

Phil Oertel (MS 2005; now at Amazon)

Michael Simon (MSC 2005)

Dafna Shahaf (MS 2007; Now a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University)

Adam Vogel (BS 2007; Now a Ph.D. student at Stanford University)

Matt Young (MS 2005)

Major Projects and Grants

Scaling Up First-Order Logical Reasoning (updated Jan. 23, 2006); NSF (CAREER) grant is acknowledged

Previous Grants and Projects

Autonomous Car Project for the DARPA Urban Challenge

Logical Filtering and State Estimation project web page (updated Jan. 19, 2005); DARPA/IPTO (REAL) (BAA03-34) grant is acknowledged

Knowledge-Based Learning (updated Jan. 13, 2006); DARPA/IPTO (BAA02-21) grant is acknowledged

Logic-Based Subsumption Architecture project web page (updated Nov. 14, 2001)

Partitioning and Reasoning project web page (updated Jan. 1, 2003)

Teaching

For Students

Recommended readings

Suggested projects

Conference deadlines

An algorithm for a good research paper

My Classes (Fall Semester 2008)

Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence (CS498 Section EA)

Other Classes, Seminars, and Groups at UIUC

Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AIML) Seminar

Classes of interest to the ANN/Computational Brain Theory group (Spring 2004)

Previous Classes/Seminars/Reading Groups

Noteworthy Resources

AI Qual and Reading Group at Stanford 1995-1997

Conferences and such, and also some deadlines

General AI resources and journals

Nonmonotonic Reasoning and Theories of Action

The NOBOTS group web page

Related Research Groups and Communities

UC Berkeley's RUGS, Stuart Russell's research group (see also Mark Paskin's page)

UC Berkeley's FOPL (First-Order Probabilistic Logic) group (here is Hanna's original FOPL page).

Stanford's FRG (formal reasoning group), headed by John McCarthy

About Me

Family and friends!

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Eyal Amir Last updated on July 12th, 2007.