Activities and Interests

• I am not accepting new students.
  For applying to our department, please see Applications & Admissions on the Department of Computing Science web site.
• Research - main active area: algorithms in combinatorial game theory.
  • Research Group, current and previous members and visitors
  • Publications of my research group.
  • Open source software developed by my research group.
  • Some recent Talks from my group, on planning and games topics.
• Teaching - List of Courses I have taught.
• Where I have lived and my work experience.

2025 News

• Sep 15: Two papers accepted for Advances in Computer Games: MCGS: A Minimax-based Combinatorial Game Solver, and SEGClobber - A Linear Clobber Solver. Congratulations Taylor, Henry, Zahra and Fatemeh!
• Sep-Dec: Teaching a grad course CMPUT 657 - Algorithms for Combinatorial Games.
• Aug 29: Taylor released Version 1.3 of MCGS!
• Aug 23-30: Ti-Rong Wu of Academia Sinica visited our group, and gave the AI Seminar on Aug 29. Topic: Exploring Game AI through Planning.
• Aug 10: Submitted two papers for Advances in Computer Games, on Clobber and MCGS.
• Jun 2-12: our department moved to University Commons. My new office is 6-190.
• Jun 9: Taylor released Version 1.2 of MCGS!
• May 8: Visiting Ting-han Wei in Kochi, Japan. I gave a talk on Game Tree Search, Combinatorial Games, and Go.
• May 1: Owen received the President's Doctoral Prize of Distinction from our university! Congratulations Owen!
• Apr 24: Hongming Zhang passed his PhD exam. Congratulations Dr. Hongming!!!
• Apr 23: Our journal paper ETGL-DDPG: A Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient Algorithm for Sparse Reward Continuous Control was accepted for TMLR. Congratulations Ehsan!
• Mar 23: Taylor released Version 1.1 of MCGS!
• Mar 15: Calgary - Edmonton Team Go match in SUB, on eight boards. Edmonton won 5:3!
• Mar 10: Henry Du passed his MSc exam. Congratulations Henry!!!
• Feb 22/23: visiting my diploma thesis supervisor Dr. Peter Lipp and his wife Michaela in Graz, Austria.
• Feb 7: Announcing MCGS Version 1, our Minimax-based Combinatorial Game Solver. Congratulations Taylor and Henry!
• Feb 1: I gave a short overview talk about our MCGS software, A Search-based Approach for Solving Sum Games at CGTC V, Lisbon 2025.
• Jan 30: Timo Bertram passed his PhD exam at JKU Linz. Congratulations Timo!!!
• Jan - Jun: I'm on a six months sabbatical!

• Old news (up to 2024)

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