It's the start of a new academic year and I'm delighted to welcome three new students to the UWECEML lab: Benyamin, Sushrut and Sahil will join the growing research focus on Autonomous Driving including building collaboritive driving models that can be learned from data and modelling/learning human driver behaviour styles.

See Presentations for information on talks members of the lab gave in August and upcoming talks...

The Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation will be hosting this conference May 16-17. The resilience of complex systems to disturbances is a topic of longstanding and continuing interest in academic communities including applied mathematics, ecology, environmental sciences, and the social sciences and humanities, among others. Over the past few decades this research has led to both insights into real-world systems as well as policy improvements. However, significant theoretical and empirical challenges remain, as well as challenges in improving policy.This is particularly urgent...

I'll be attending the AAAI/EAAI 2017 conference in San Francisco Feb 4-9, 2017. I'll be giving a lightening talk on Sunday afternoon on ideas for AI education. If you'll be attending and want to meet up get in touch. I'll be posted about events and interesting talks on twitter @compthink.