I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Toronto Metropolitan University and a Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute. 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@torontomu.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
June 2024 - Paper on bench transition system-based exploration appearing at SoCS
June 2024 - Paper on runtime analysis of breadth-first search and random walks appearing at HSDIP
May 2024 - Paper on using GANs to generate microplastic data appearing at CANAI
August 2023 - Reward Machines paper won the 2023 IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize
August 2023 - Paper on Learning Reward Machines published in AIJ
June 2023 - Named as a Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute
January 2023 - Teaching a first-year class on programming at Toronto Metropolitan University
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