Alan Fern

Alan Fern

Alan Fern

Professor
Organizations
Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Address

GRAF 326
Corvallis, OR 97331
United States

Degrees
Ph.D., Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 2004
M.S., Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 2000
B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Maine, 1997
Research Expertise

Reinforcement learning, planning, humanoid robotics, agricultural AI

Biography

Alan Fern is a professor of computer science, artificial intelligence, and robotics in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 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 where he works on AI for enabling humanoid robots to do real-world work. He is also the AI director for the AgAID National AI Institute in collaboration with Washington State University, which has the mission of developing AI and robotics solutions for important problems in specialty crop agriculture.

Awards/Accolades
2017 College of Engineering Research Collaboration Award
2013 AAAI Outstanding Paper Award
2011 OSU Promising Scholar Award
2011 OSU College of Engineering Research Collaboration Award
2011 IJCAI-JAIR Award for Best Paper in Previous Five Years, Runner-up
2011 Promising Scholar Award
2010 ICAPS Best Paper Runner-Up
2009 ICAPS Best Student Paper Awards
2008 OSU College of Engineering Engelbrecht Young Faculty Award
2006 NSF CAREER Award

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