Santiago Ontañón Villar
Senior Research Scientist
Google DeepMind
Associate Research Professor
Drexel University
Publications (or check them out in my Google Scholar Profile, DBLP entry, ACM Author Profile, or Academia.edu)
Teaching (links to the websites of all the courses I've taught, while I was a faculty member at Drexel University).
Software (code for a bunch of the systems I work on: microRTS, FTL, Riu, Darmok, and more. also code and data required to reproduce results published in some of my papers)
Personal (Computer Games, LEGO, Science Fiction, and more)
I am organizing an AI competition around the microRTS game: microRTS AI competition
Current PhD Students:
Former PhD Students:
Costa Huang (PhD thesis "Reproducible and Efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning", 2023)
Robert Gray (co-advised with Jichen Zhu) (PhD thesis "Player Modeling in Adaptive Games via Multi-Armed Bandits", 2022)
Zuozhi Yang (PhD thesis "Integrating Domain knowledge into Monte Carlo Tree Search for Real-Time Strategy Games", 2022)
Pavan Kantharaju (PhD thesis "Learning Decomposition Models for Hierarchical Planning and Plan Recognition", 2020)
Emily LeBlanc (co-advised with Marcello Balduccini) (PhD thesis "Explaining Actual Causation via Reasoning about Actions and Change", 2019)
Brandon Packard (PhD thesis "Learning from Human Demonstration", 2018)
Alberto Uriarte (PhD thesis "Adversarial Search and Spatial Reasoning in Real Time Strategy Games", 2017)
Josep Valls (co-advised with Jichen Zhu from the Procedural Expression Lab) (PhD thesis "Narrative Information Extraction with Non-Linear Natural Language Processing", 2018)
Sam Snodgrass (PhD thesis "Markov Models for Procedural Content Generation", 2018)