There are a number of fields of which I am interested in with regards to research. First and foremost is my own specialist area of General Video Game Playing (GVGP) which looks at developing AI which can solve unknown problems.

Gamification is another area of interest for me. Improving education is something I have been passionate about for a long time, and I feel that applying elements of gameplay to our educational systems would have enormously beneficial effects. Primarily the shifting away from breaking down a student's grade to building it up.

There are other areas of which I am interested, however I wanted to focus on the areas that I currently pursure in some capacity, as I could write forever of the things that I am just interested in!

So what is GVGP?

Thanks for asking!

GVGP is a field of research which used video games as an experimentation platform. The goal is to develop AI which can reason about a given problem and come up with a solution, without knowing anything about the problem beforehand.

This is cool because currently AI focuses on solving problems that we can already solve. We design an AI to play Chess, or Go, or to tidy the room. We give it the advantage of our knowledge on how to accomplish the goal, but what if we don't know how to solve it either? Or we do know how to solve it, but we want a new approach to solving it?

GVGP provides a platform with a diverse range of problems, video games, and the anonymity required to make the problems truly unknown. And this is utterly fascinating to me!

2018

D. Anderson, M. Stephenson, J. Togelius, C. Salge, J. Levine, J. Renz. Deceptive Games In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 10784 LNCS, pp. 376–391).

2014

D. Anderson, M. Audrain, Z. Charifoulline, M. Dragu, K. Fuchsberger, J.C. Garnier, A.A. Gorzawski, M. Koza, K. Krol, S. Rowan, K. Stamos, M. Zerlauth Testing Quality and Metrics for the LHC Magnet Powering System throughout Past and Future Commissioning

M Audrain, R Gorbonosov, J Suchowski, M Zerlauth, JC Garnier, PC Turcu, A Jalal, K Stamos, AA Gorzawski, K Fuchsberger, D Anderson Using a Java Embedded DSL for LHC Test Analysis

D. Anderson, M. Audrain, M. Dragu, K. Fuchsberger, J.C. Garnier, A.A. Gorzawski, M. Koza, K. Krol, K. Misiowiec, K. Stamos, M. Zerlauth Reliable Software Development for Machine Protection Systems

M Audrain, M Zerlauth, JC Garnier, M Koza, M Dragu, B Puccio, K Stamos, A Moscatelli, K Krol, K Fuchsberger, D Anderson, AA Gorzawski Supervision Software for the Integration of the Beam Interlock System with the CERN Accelerator Complex

2013

D Anderson, M Audrain, K Fuchsberger, JC Garnier, R Gorbonosov, AA Gorzawski, A Jalal, A Moscatelli, PC Turcu, K Stamos, M Zerlauth The AccTesting Framework: an extensible framework for accelerator commissioning and systematic testing