Joelle Pineau's webpage at McGill

News and points of interest:

• Don't miss the upcoming 2012 International Conference on Maching Learning (ICML)!
  I am the program chair (with John Langford) for this event.
• Full set of publications available here.

• A paper on our intelligent wheelchair:
  • J. Pineau, R. West, A. Atrash, J. Villemure, F. Routhier. "On the Feasibility of Using a Standardized Test for Evaluating a Speech-Controlled Smart Wheelchair". International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems. 16(2). pp.121-128. 2011. [.pdf]

• A survey of online POMDP methods:
  • S. Ross, J. Pineau, S. Paquet, B. Chaib-draa. "Online Planning Algorihtms for POMDPs". Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). Volume 32, pages 663-704. 2008. [.pdf]

• Some of our papers on Bayesian Reinforcement Learning:
  S. Ross, J. Pineau, B. Chaib-draa, P. Kreitmann. "A Bayesian Approach for Learning and Planning in Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes". Journal of Machine Learning. 2011. [.pdf]
  
  • S. Ross & J. Pineau. "Model-Based Bayesian Reinforcement Learning in Large Structured Domains". Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI). 2008.[.pdf]
    
  • S. Ross, B. Chaib-draa, & J. Pineau. "Bayesian Reinforcement Learning in Continuous POMDPs with Application to Robot Navigation". ICRA 2008. [.pdf]
    
  • S. Ross, B. Chaib-draa, & J. Pineau. "Bayes-Adaptive POMDPs". NIPS 2007. [.pdf]

• New ideas on extracting semantic information from Wikipedia:
  • R. West, D. Precup, J. Pineau. "Automatically Suggesting Topics for Augmenting Text Documents". The 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). 2010. [.pdf]
    
  • R. West, D. Precup, J. Pineau. "Completing Wikipedia's Hyperlink Structure through Dimensionality Reduction". The 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). 2009. [.pdf]
    
  • R. West, J. Pineau and D. Precup. "Wikispeedia: An Online Game for Inferring Semantic Distances between Concepts". International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). 2009. [.pdf]

• I co-organized the ICAPS'10 POMDP Practitioners Workshop: solving real-world POMDP problems (in collaboration with Matthijs Spaan, Pascal Poupart, Guy Shani and Jason Williams).

Research interests:

• Planning, learning and decision-making
  • Learning and representation of probabilistic systems
  • Reinforcement learning, MDPs, POMDPs
  • Machine learning

• Mobile robotics, human-robot interaction.
  • Design of an intelligent robotic wheelchair (Smartwheeler project)
  • Large-scale dialogue management

• Adaptive treatment design
  • Automated learning of adaptive treatment strategies for chronic depression
  • Computational modelling and adaptive treatment of epilepsy
  • Preference elicitation in medical decision-making

Current projects are described in more detail on my Research page.