George Konidaris

About

George Konidaris is a Professor of Computer Science and director of the Intelligent Robot Lab at Brown University. His research aims to build intelligent, autonomous, general-purpose robots by understanding the computational processes that generate intelligence. He focuses on designing agents that learn abstraction hierarchies for fast, goal-oriented planning, integrating machine learning, reinforcement learning, optimal control, and planning. He is also co-founder of Realtime Robotics and Lelapa AI.

Selected publications

• G.D. Konidaris. On The Necessity of Abstraction. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 29 (Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence), pages 1-7, October 2019.
• G.D. Konidaris, L.P. Kaelbling, and T. Lozano-Perez. From Skills to Symbols: Learning Symbolic Representations for Abstract High-Level Planning. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 61, pages 215-289, January 2018.