Avi Pfeffer Associate Professor of Computer Science Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University

Regular office hours for Spring 2008: Friday 2:30-4.

Courses

Fall 2006   CS281r: Planning, without and with Uncertainty

Spring 2006   CS181: Intelligent Machines - Perception, Learning and Uncertainty

Fall 2005   CS282: Probabilistic Reasoning

Fall 2003   CS281r: AI and Music

Fall 2001       CS281r: Computational Game Theory

Tutorials

Here is a tutorial on graphical models for multi-agent decision making that I presented with Kobi Gal at AAAI 2008.

Here is a tutorial on first-order probabilistic languages that I presented with Lise Getoor at IJCAI 2005.

Research

My research focuses on the design of intelligent systems that perform well in the real world. The world is a challenging place - it is large and complex, and it keeps on changing, often in unpredictable ways. I am particularly interested in systems that can deal effectively with uncertainty. Some current projects:

IBAL: A general representation language for probabilistic reasoning and decision-theoretic agents

Modeling agents' beliefs and decision making processes in games

Probabilistic models of music

Efficient hierarchical probabilistic inference in dynamic systems

Older projects:

Probabilistic Reasoning for Complex Systems

Learning Rich Probabilistic Models

Effective Algorithms for Game-Theoretic Problems

Publications

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