
Alan Fern
GRAF 326
Corvallis, OR 97331
United States
Reinforcement learning, planning, humanoid robotics, agricultural ai
Alan Fern is a professor of computer science and Executive Director of A.I. Research for the College of Engineering at Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. (2004) in computer engineering from Purdue University, and his B.S. (1997) in electrical engineering from the University of Maine. His research interests span a variety of topics in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics with a particular emphasis on building systems that can learn from experience. He co-directs the Dynamic Robotics Laboratory with Jonathan Hurst at Oregon State and is PI for a number of government funded projects including DARPA programs on Explainable Artificial Intelligence and Machine Common Sense. Most recently he is serving as the OSU lead PI for a new $20M AI Institute on Agricultural AI in collaboration with Washington State University.
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