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Sina
<span class="text-primary">Ghiassian</span>
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Department of Computing Science · University of Alberta · Edmonton, Alberta ·
<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>
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<p class="lead mb-5">My goal is to understand computational principles underlying intelligence. I am interested in the broad area of Artificial
Intelligence, specifically in Reinforcement Learning and how machines learn to have a goal-directed behavior by interacting
with the world. My primary research focus is on understanding off-policy learning algorithms and building new stable
algorithms that learn fast. A second topic of interest is fully incremental deep reinforcement learning through mitigating
catastrophic interference.</p>
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<h2 class="mb-5">PUBLICATIONS</h2>
<h4>REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS</h4>
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<h3 class="mb-0">Using Functional or Structural
Magnetic Resonance Images and Personal Characteristic Data to Identify ADHD and Autism</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3"><u>Sina Ghiassian</u>, Russell Greiner, Ping Jin, Matthew R.G. Brown. PLOS
One1234 11.12 (2016): e0166934. <a target="_blank" href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0166934"><i class="fa fa-download" style="width:0.7em"></i></a></div>
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<div class="flex-shrink-0"><span class="text-primary">2016</span></div>
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<h4>REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS</h4>
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<h3 class="mb-0">Gradient
Temporal-Difference Learning with Regularized Corrections.</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3"><u>Sina Ghiassian</u>, Andrew Patterson, Shivam Garg, Dhawal Gupta, Adam White, Martha White. Accepted to the International Conference
on Machine Learning 2020 (ICML 2020). <a target="_blank" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00611"><i class="fa fa-download" style="width:0.7em"></i></a></div>
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<div class="flex-shrink-0"><span class="text-primary">2020</span></div>
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<h3 class="mb-0">Improving Performance in Reinforcement
Learning by Breaking Generalization in Neural Networks</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3"><u>Sina Ghiassian</u>, Banafsheh Rafiee, Yat Long Lo, Adam White. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS~2020), pp. 438-446. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2020/pdfs/p438.pdf"><i class="fa fa-download" style="width:0.7em"></i></a></div>
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<div class="flex-shrink-0"><span class="text-primary">2020</span></div>
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<h3 class="mb-0">Prediction in Intelligence: An Empirical
Comparison of Off-policy Algorithms on Robots.</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3">Banafsheh Rafiee, <u>Sina Ghiassian</u>, Adam White, Richard Sutton. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference
on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2019), pp. 332-340. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2019/pdfs/p332.pdf"><i class="fa fa-download" style="width:0.7em"></i></a></div>
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<div class="flex-shrink-0"><span class="text-primary">2020</span></div>
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<h4>REFEREED WORKSHOP PAPERS</h4>
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<h3 class="mb-0">Overcoming Catastrophic Interference in Online Reinforcement Learning
with Dynamic Self-Organizing Maps</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3">Yat Long Lo, <u>Sina Ghiassian</u>. Accepted to the Biological and Artificial Reinforcement Learning
workshop of the Neural Information Processing Systems conference in Nov. 2019. <a target="_blank" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.13213"><i class="fa fa-download" style="width:0.7em"></i></a></div>
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<div class="flex-shrink-0"><span class="text-primary">2019</span></div>
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<h3 class="mb-0">Robot Off-policy Prediction: An
empirical Comparison of Learning Algorithms.</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3">Banafsheh Rafiee, <u>Sina Ghiassian</u>, Adam White, Richard Sutton. Accepted to the Continual Learning workshop of the
Neural Information Processing Systems conference (NIPS CL) in Nov. 2018. <a target="_blank" href=""><i class="fa fa-download" style="width:0.7em"></i></a></div>
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<div class="flex-shrink-0"><span class="text-primary">2018</span></div>
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<h3 class="mb-0">Rejection Sampling for Off-Policy Reinforcement
Learning.</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3">Wesly Chung, <u>Sina Ghiassian</u>, Somjit Nath, Martha White. Accepted to the Continual Learning workshop of the Neural Information Processing
Systems conference (NIPS CL) in Nov. 2018. <a target="_blank" href=""><i class="fa fa-download" style="width:0.7em"></i></a></div>
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<div class="flex-shrink-0"><span class="text-primary">2018</span></div>
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<h3 class="mb-0">A First Empirical Study of Emphatic Temporal Difference
Learning.</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3"><u>Sina Ghiassian</u>, Banafsheh Rafiee, Richard Sutton. Accepted to the Continual Learning workshop of the Neural Information Processing
Systems conference (NIPS CL) in Nov. 2016. <a target="_blank" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.04185"><i class="fa fa-download" style="width:0.7em"></i></a></div>
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<div class="flex-shrink-0"><span class="text-primary">2016</span></div>
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<h3 class="mb-0">Learning to Clasify Psychiatric Disorders
based on fMR Images: Autism vs. Healthy and ADHD vs. Healthy.</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3"><u>Sina Ghiassian</u>, Russell Greiner, Ping Jin, Matthew R.G. Brown. Accepted to the Machine
Learning and Interpretation in NeuroImaging workshop of the Neural Information Processing Systems
conference (NIPS MLINI) in Nov. 2013. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Learning-to-Classify-Psychiatric-Disorders-based-on-Ghiassian-Greiner/b5c90dc06b63099c3d35c86c97fa24ebf9d41fb6"><i class="fa fa-download" style="width:0.7em"></i></a></div>
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<div class="flex-shrink-0"><span class="text-primary">2013</span></div>
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<h2 class="mb-5">Education</h2>
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<h3 class="mb-0"><b>University of Alberta</b>, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3">Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science, <span>GPA: 4.3/4</span></div>
<div>Specialization: <b>Reinforcement Learning</b></div>
<div>Supervisor: <b>Richard S. Sutton</b>, <b>Adam White</b></div>
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<div class="flex-shrink-0"><span class="text-primary">Sep. 2015 – present</span></div>
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<h3 class="mb-0"><b>University of British Columbia</b>, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3">Ph.D. Student, Neuroscience (voluntary withdrawal)</div>
<div>Specialization: <b>fMRI Data Analysis</b></div>
<div>Supervisor: <b>Todd S. Woodward</b></div>
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<div class="flex-shrink-0"><span class="text-primary">Sep. 2014 – Aug. 2015</span></div>
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<h3 class="mb-0"><b>University of Alberta</b>, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3">M.Sc. Computer Science, <span>GPA: 4.1/4</span></div>
<div>Specialization: <b>Supervised Learning</b></div>
<div>Supervisor: <b>Russell Greiner</b>, <b>Matthew R.G. Brown</b></div>
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<div class="flex-shrink-0"><span class="text-primary">Sep. 2012 – Aug. 2014</span></div>
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<h3 class="mb-0">Reinforcement learning for Artificial Intelligence.</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3"><b>Department of Computing Science</b>, University of Alberta.</div>
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<div class="flex-shrink-0"><span class="text-primary">Sep. 2017 – Dec. 2017</span></div>
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<h3 class="mb-0">Advanced Python Programming.</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3"><b>Department of Computing Science</b>, University of Alberta.</div>
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<div class="flex-shrink-0"><span class="text-primary">Jan. 2013 – Apr. 2013</span></div>
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<h3 class="mb-0">Introductory Python Programming.</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3"><b>Department of Computing Science</b>, University of Alberta.</div>
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<div class="flex-shrink-0"><span class="text-primary">Sep. 2012 – Dec. 2012</span></div>
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<b>J.P. Morgan (AI) Ph.D. Fellowship (international fellowship)</b> - Value: $55000 – at University of Alberta
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<b>Queen Elizabeth 2 Scholarship (provincial scholarship)</b> - Value: $15000 – at University of Alberta.
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<b>International Tuition Award</b> - Value: $1066 – at University of British Columbia.
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<b>Faculty of Medicine Graduate Award</b> - Value: $3500 – at University of British Columbia.
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<b>International Tuition Award</b> - Value: $2133 – University of British Columbia.
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<b>Graduate Student GPA Award</b> - Value: $1000 – University of Alberta.
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