I'm a PhD student (starting Sept 2010) at UBC, supervised by Alan Mackworth. My 

research interests are in transfer learning in reinforcement learning domains.

Publications

• Using Spatial Hints to Improve Policy Reuse in a Reinforcement Learning Agent
  Bruno da Silva and Alan Mackworth
  Proceedings of AAMAS 2010
• Supporting material
  
  
• Learning from Disagreeing Demonstrators
  Bruno da Silva
  Proceedings of the AAAI 2009 Spring Symposium on Agents that Learn from Human Teachers
  
  
• Achieving Accessibility with Self-Interested Designers: A Strategic Knowledge-Acquisition Approach
  Bruno da Silva, Lucia Silva, Ana Cristina Garcia
  Proceedings of ACM CHI-2008, Work in Progress Track
  
  
• KA-CAPTCHA: An Opportunity for Knowledge Acquisition on the Web
  Bruno da Silva, Ana Cristina Garcia
  Proceedings of the 22nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), 1322-1327
  
  
• A Hybrid Method for Image Taxonomy: Using CAPTCHA for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition
  Bruno da Silva, Ana Cristina Garcia
  Proceedings of the AAAI 2006 Fall Symposium on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition, 17-23