I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Toronto Metropolitan University. Previously I was an Applied Research Scientist at Element AI. I am interested in artificial intelligence, particularly in the areas of automated planning, heuristic search, knowledge representation, reinforcement learning, and game-playing agents.
Contact me at x@ryerson.ca where x=rick.valenzano (ie. replace "x" with "rick.valenzano" without the quotation marks). Try and grab that email address, you meddling spambots.
You can also find me on LinkedIn.
News
September 2022 - I have been named as a distinguished PC Member for IJCAI-ECAI for being in the top 3% of reviewers
September 2022 - Teaching a grad class on Heuristic Search at Toronto Metropolitan University
September 2022 - Teaching a third year class on Artificial Intelligence at Toronto Metropolitan University
January 2022 - Teaching a first-year class at Toronto Metropolitan University
January 2022 - Teaching a grad class on Heuristic Search at Toronto Metropolitan University
January 2022 - Paper on Reward Machines published in JAIR
August 2021 - Paper appearing at IJCAI on incorporating random exploration into bounded suboptimal search
January 2021 - Starting as an Assistant Professor at Ryerson University
February 2020 - Teaching a course on Reinforcement Learning for the Queen's Master of Management in AI Program.