Geoffrey J. Gordon is a professor at the Machine Learning Department at

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and director of research at the

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Montréal lab. He is known for his research in

statistical relational learning Statistical relational learning (SRL) is a subdiscipline of artificial intelligence and machine learning that is concerned with domain models that exhibit both uncertainty (which can be dealt with using statistical methods) and complex, relational ...

(a subdiscipline of

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and

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

) and on anytime dynamic variants of the A* search algorithm.Likhachev, Maxim; Gordon, Geoff; Thrun, Sebastian.
ARA*: Anytime A* search with provable bounds on sub-optimality
. In S. Thrun, L. Saul, and B. Schölkopf, editors, ''Proceedings of Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)'', Cambridge, MA, 2003. MIT Press. His research interests include multi-agent planning, reinforcement learning, decision-theoretic planning, statistical models of difficult data (e.g. maps, video, text), computational learning theory, and game theory. Gordon received a B.A. in computer science from

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in 1991, and a PhD at Carnegie Mellon in 1999.

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