QMUL Game AI group

We are taking part of the EECS Research Week 2020 at QMUL, this Tuesday 24th Nov 11am-12pm (GMT). PhD students and academic staff in our group will showcase their research, followed by a Q&A session. You can register here (free): eventbrite.co.uk/e/eecs-researc…

The cool thing about setting an assignment for MSc students on writing AI players for board games is that you get to run game sessions to teach the game. A bit of Sushi Go! before lunch time sounds appropriate. @GameAI_QMUL @tag_framework

QMUL is hiring 30 faculty at all levels (lecturer/senior lect/reader/professor) on several science fields, including AI/ML/Data Science. This includes groups like our @GameAI_QMUL at @QMEECS. Wanna come join us? We have games and cookies. Application here: qmul.ac.uk/strategic-hire…

Thanks to @Bam4d, we now have a MiniHack Level Editor inside a browser which allows to easily design custom MiniHack environments using a convenient drag-and-drop functionality. Check it out at minihack-editor.github.io

We are hiring! We look for a Research Assistant or a Postdoctoral Research Assistant to work on the ARCIDUCA project, focused on conversational agents (CAs) that can be embedded in virtual world games and are able to interpret coreference and reference - qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies…

We're looking for a Research Assistant to join our Comp. Linguistics & Game AI groups for the ARCIDUCA project, which will do research on conversational agents to be embedded in virtual world games and able to interpret coreference and reference. See here: qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies…

iGGi APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN !!! Thinking of doing a PhD in digital games? We offer around 12 studentships for Sep '22 entry @UoY_CS or @GameAI_QMUL. We welcome submissions until noon 27 Jan '22 (strict deadline) #PhD #RESEARCH #Games Find details at iggi.org.uk/apply

We were pleased to have Simon Lucas (@GameAI_QMUL) giving a talk on "Evolutionary Algorithms and Game AI" at @UCL_DARK Invited Speaker Series Link: youtu.be/MM3JoMYcAYQ For the upcoming talks, follow us on Twitter or subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/channel/UCYocW…

Today I've passed my PhD viva! :) Many thanks to be given, saved for my very long thesis acknowledgements - here I'll thank @diego_pliebana @SimonMarkLucas and @smdvln as my awesome supervision team, and @yannakakis and @arnavjhala for a great viva experience!

Glad to see @GameAI_QMUL developed an excellent repo on top of me focused on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning scenario. More examples to show how to work with Malmo in both single and multi-agent setups using RLlib. github.com/GAIGResearch/m…

This is a great opportunity to know more about our research and upcoming PhD scholarship opportunities. In particular, we are recruiting PhD students for September 2021 under the @iggiphd program - iggi.org.uk

We are taking part of the EECS Research Week 2020 at QMUL, this Tuesday 24th Nov 11am-12pm (GMT). PhD students and academic staff in our group will showcase their research, followed by a Q&A session. You can register here (free): eventbrite.co.uk/e/eecs-researc…

My PhD student @Pacheco_CrisP is working w/ @DavidMelhart and our friends from @InDigitalGames in this NPC believability study. If you've got 5 minutes to spare please play a couple of games at pagan.davidmelhart.com/collect_mazing… and, *importantly*, fill & submit the form at the end! Thanks!

I did an interview a little while ago on my PhD experience - might be interesting if you're thinking of doing a PhD, or are curious about my random stories! The website also has several other interviews with a few @iggiphd students, check them out! :) discoverphds.com/advice/intervi…

Another piece of great news today: all the recordings for all CoG 2019 presentations are now available in the YouTube links below. tinyurl.com/cog2019-indust… tinyurl.com/cog2019-day-2 tinyurl.com/cog2019-day-3 tinyurl.com/cog2019-day-4

@GameAI_QMUL The second role is a 12-month position for an experienced C++ games programmer, who will work on developing games for the project. For full details, please check the job profile here: webapps2.is.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/job.actio… (3/3)

@GameAI_QMUL The PhD will be working on Statistical Forward Planning methods and Forward Models. The position is fully funded for UK, EU and Overseas, including stipend for three years: findaphd.com/phds/project/p… (2/3)

Hi everyone! I am *HIRING* two people (a PhD student and a Games Programmer) for this project: gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.…. The successful candidates will join @GameAI_QMUL at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Deadline for both positions below is *31st January 2020* (1/3)

We are calling for competition proposals, tutorial proposals, and special session proposals. The deadline is January 14, 2020 (AoE). #important_dates" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ieee-cog.org/2020/#importan… May the force be with you (us!?).

Very happy to have received the Best Artifact Award at @AIIDEconference! The artifact track aims at promoting reproducibility and the release of software from papers published at #AIIDE19. Co-authored with @b_gum22, Olve Drageset, Ercument Ilhan, @ballamist and @SimonMarkLucas

The registration for #CoG2019 Industry Day is open. Tickets are FREE and limited! Join us on the 20th August at QMUL for a day full of talks on games research. What's on? (1/2)