Past Courses

Current Graduate Students

Timothy Furtak (Ph.D.)
David Churchill (Ph.D)
John Peters (M.Sc)

Past Graduate Students

Jeff Long (Ph.D., graduated August 2011, "Search, Inference, and Opponent Modeling in an Expert-Calibre Skat Player")
Sterling Orsten (M.Sc., graduated Jan 2011, "Dynamically Learning Efficient Server/Client Network Protocols for Networked Simulation")
Kai Chen (M.Sc., graduated Jan 2009, "Robust Triangulation-Based Pathfinding")
Alehandro Isaza [co-supervision with Russ Greiner] (M.Sc., graduated Aug. 2008, "Cover Heuristic")
Timothy Furtak (M.Sc., graduated Oct.2007, "Sorting Using SIMD Registers")
Frantisek Sailer (M.Sc., graduated June 2007, "Adversarial Planning in RTS Games Through Simulation")
Douglas Demyen (M.Sc., graduated Sep.2006, "Efficient Triangulation-Based Pathfinding")
Siddhartha Chinthapally (M.Sc., graduated Jan.2006, "Overfitting in Generalized Linear Evaluation Models")
Michael Chung [co-supervision with J. Schaeffer] (M.Sc., graduated Jan.2005, "Monte Carlo Planning in RTS Games")
Alexander Kovarsky (M.Sc., graduated Aug.2004, "Heuristic search applied to abstract combat scenarios")
Thomas Hauk [co-supervision with J. Schaeffer] (M.Sc., graduated Jan.2004, "Search in Trees with Chance Nodes", now at EA)
Dave Gomboc [co-supervision with T.A. Marsland] (M.Sc., graduated Jan.2004, "Tuning Evaluation Functions by Maximizing Concordance", now at ICT)

Summer Students

Sterling Orsten (NSERC 2007, hierarchical ORTS AI + pathfinding)
Krysta Mirzayans (NSERC 2007, ORTS.net software)
Nathan Taylor (2007, Skat AI)
Nathaniel Rossol (2006, ORTS graphics)
Mike Packer (2006, ORTS graphics)
Sean Healy (2006, GGS)
Krysta Mirzayans (2006-2007, ORTS tournament manager)
Nick Wiebe (NSERC 2006, Pathfinding)
James Bergsma (2006, Pathfinding)
David Tom (2006, Scripting high-level strategies)
Lenore Brown (NSERC 2005, Random-Map Generation)
Allan Schumacher (NSERC 2005, Pathfinding)
Andrew Hakman (2005, ORTS.net)
Timothy Furtak (NSERC 2003,2004,2005 ORTS)
Ghassan Zabaneh (2004, 3D models in ORTS)
Adrien Cho (2004, 3D models in ORTS, now at Bioware)
Sami Wagialla (2004, ORTS)
Brandon Blanck (2004, Pathfinding)
Harry Wentland (2003, ORTS)
Ryan Vogt (NSERC 2003, Selective Search)