Advice for my present and future students

• Prospective students: Please read this piece of advice before you contact me! In case you want to send me an e-mail, this is how I prefer to be addressed.
• What does it mean to be a grad student?

Visitors, post-doctoral fellows

• András György, 2011-

Current students

• Hao Cheng (MSc, Alberta, 2012 April 1-, co-supervised with Dale Schuurmans)
• Ryan Kiros (MSc, Alberta, 2012 March 28-)
• Roshan Shariff (MSc, Alberta, 2012 March 26-)
• Shun Jie Lau (MSc, Alberta, 2012 March 22-)
• Pooria Joulani (PhD, Alberta, 2012 September 1-, co-supervised with András György)
• Bernardo Avila Pires (PhD, Alberta, 2011 April 2-)
• Özlem Aslan (PhD, Alberta, 2011 February 4-, co-supervised with Dale Schuurmans)
• Ruitong Huang (PhD, Alberta, 2011 February 9-, co-supervised with Dale Schuurmans)
• Gábor Balázs (PhD, Alberta, 2009 November 20-, co-supervised with Dale Schuurmans)
• Yaoliang Yu (PhD, Alberta, 2009 May 22-, co-supervised with Dale Schuurmans)
• Hengshuai Yao (PhD, Alberta, 2008-, co-supervised with Rich Sutton)
• Gergely Neu (PhD, BME, 2008- co-supervised with Laci Györfi and András György)

Alumni -- visitors, post-doctoral fellows

• András Antos, visitor, multiple times
• Dávid Pál (PDF, 07/2009-07/2011), now software engineer at Google, New York
• István Szita (PDF, 2010-08/2011), now software engineer at Google, Zürich
• András György, visitor (1 month, 2010)
• Barnabás Póczos (PDF, 2007-2010), now Assistant Professor at CMU
• Sandra Zilles (PDF, 06/2007-06/2009), now Assistant Professor and CRC Chair at the University of Regina
• Levente Kocsis (PDF, 2005-2006, at SZTAKI, Hungary)

Alumni -- students

• Alireza Farhangfar (PhD, Alberta, 2010 November 23-2013 March 15, co-supervised with Russ Greiner. Thesis: Novel Machine Learning Algorithms, 2013).
• Arash Afkanpour (PhD, Alberta, 2010 March 18-2013 March 15, co-supervised with Mike Bowling. Thesis: Multiple Kernel Learning with Many Kernels, 2013). Currently at Google Waterloo.
• Yasin Abbasi-Yadkori (PhD, Alberta, 2009 March 4-2012 September 28. Thesis: Online Learning for Linearly Parametrized Control Problems, 2013). Currently a PDF at Queensland Univ. of Technology, Brisbane, Australia with Peter Bartlett.
• Mohammad Ajallooeian (MSc, Alberta, 2011 March 21-2013 January 31, Co-supervised with András György. Thesis: Optimal Mechanisms for Machine Learning: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Designing Machine Learning Competitions, 2013). Continuing in the PhD program.
• Navid Zolghadr (MSc, Alberta, 2011 April 15- 2013 January 30. Co-supervised with Russ Greiner; Thesis: Probe-Efficient Learning, 2013). Currently at Google.
• Pooria Joulani (MSc, Alberta, 2011 March 31- 2012 September 26, co-supervised with András György. Thesis: Multi-Armed Bandit Problems under Delayed Feedback, 2012). Continuing in the PhD program.
• Gábor Bartók (PhD, Alberta, 2008 February 13-2012 July 8. Thesis: The role of information in online learning, 2012). Currently doing a PDF at ETH Zürich with Andreas Krause.
• Bernardo Avila Pires (MSc, Alberta, 2009-2011. Thesis: Statistical analysis of L1-penalized linear estimation with applications, 2011). Continuing in the PhD program.
• Amir massoud Farahmand (PhD, Alberta, 2006-2011. Co-supervised with Martin Jagersand. Thesis: Regularities in Sequential Decision-Making Problems, 2011). Now a PDF at McGill working with Doina Precup.
• Yasin Abbasi-Yadkori (MSc, Alberta. Thesis: Forced-Exploration Based Algorithms for Playing in Bandits with Large Action Sets, 2008). Continuing in the PhD program.
• Varun Grover (MSc, Alberta, Thesis: Active Learning and its Application to Heteroscedastic Problems, 2008), now at Accenture (.NET Technical Analyst).
• Gergely Neu (MSc, BME, Thesis: Inverse Reinforcement Learning and Its Application to Learning to Parse, 2008). Continuing in the PhD program at BME.
• Volodymyr Mnih (MSc, Alberta, Thesis: Efficient Stopping Rules, 2008). Now a PhD student at the University of Toronto.
• Péter Torma (PhD, ELTE, Thesis: Towards efficient vision-based object tracking algorithms: rehabilitating visual information in particle filtering , 2008). Currently a self-employed researcher.
• Zoltán Szamonek (PhD, ELTE). Now at Google Switzerland.
• Zoltán Kömives (MSc, ELTE; co-supervised with András György, 2007)