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Michael Bowling

Michael Bowling

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Computer Science
Canada
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
60
Citations
15663
World Ranking
3218
National Ranking
125

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2021 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For significant contributions to game-playing theory and practice and to machine learning

Overview

Michael Bowling is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada, specializing in the field of computer science with a strong focus on artificial intelligence. Their body of work includes numerous publications, particularly in artificial intelligence and its applications in game theory, robotics, and machine learning.

The primary fields of their research encompass:

  • Computer Science

Within this broad field, their subfields of focus include:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Safety Research
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics

Michael Bowling's main research topics include:

  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
  • Artificial Intelligence in Games
  • Game Theory and Applications
  • Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
  • Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research
  • Sports Analytics and Performance
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

Their frequent coauthors are:

  • Marc Lanctot
  • Neil Burch
  • Finbarr Timbers
  • Dustin Morrill
  • Ryan D'Orazio

Michael Bowling has contributed extensively to several publication venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
  • Nature Communications

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Michael Bowling cover a range of topics in AI and game theory. These include:

  • "Investigating Contingency Awareness Using Atari 2600 Games," 2021, published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • "Finding Optimal Abstract Strategies in Extensive-Form Games," 2021, published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • "TacticAI: an AI assistant for football tactics," 2024, published in Nature Communications
  • "Rethinking formal models of partially observable multiagent decision making," 2021, published in Artificial Intelligence
  • "Count-Based Exploration with the Successor Representation," 2020, published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Michael Bowling was awarded the title of Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 2021. The award citation noted their contributions to game-playing theory and practice as well as to machine learning.

Best Publications

  • The arcade learning environment: an evaluation platform for general agents

    Marc G. Bellemare;Yavar Naddaf;Joel Veness;Michael Bowling

  • Multiagent Learning Using a Variable Learning Rate

    Michael H. Bowling;Manuela M. Veloso

  • DeepStack: Expert-level artificial intelligence in heads-up no-limit poker

    Matej Moravčík;Matej Moravčík;Martin Schmid;Martin Schmid;Neil Burch;Viliam Lisý;Viliam Lisý

  • Regret Minimization in Games with Incomplete Information

    Martin Zinkevich;Michael Johanson;Michael Bowling;Carmelo Piccione

  • Heads-up limit hold'em poker is solved

    Michael Bowling;Neil Burch;Michael Johanson;Oskari Tammelin

  • Rational and convergent learning in stochastic games

    Michael Bowling;Manuela Veloso

  • Revisiting the Arcade Learning Environment: Evaluation Protocols and Open Problems for General Agents

    Marlos C. Machado;Marc G. Bellemare;Erik Talvitie;Joel Veness

  • Automatic gait optimization with Gaussian process regression

    Daniel Lizotte;Tao Wang;Michael Bowling;Dale Schuurmans

  • Convergence and No-Regret in Multiagent Learning

    Michael Bowling

  • DeepStack: Expert-Level Artificial Intelligence in No-Limit Poker

    Matej Moravcík;Martin Schmid;Neil Burch;Viliam Lisý

  • Monte Carlo Sampling for Regret Minimization in Extensive Games

    Marc Lanctot;Kevin Waugh;Martin Zinkevich;Michael Bowling

  • Apprenticeship learning using linear programming

    Umar Syed;Michael Bowling;Robert E. Schapire

  • The Hanabi Challenge: A New Frontier for AI Research

    Nolan Bard;Jakob N. Foerster;Sarath Chandar;Neil Burch

  • STP: Skills, tactics, and plays for multi-robot control in adversarial environments:

    B Browning;J Bruce;M Bowling;M Veloso

  • Bayes' bluff: opponent modelling in poker

    Finnegan Southey;Michael Bowling;Bryce Larson;Carmelo Piccione

  • An Analysis of Stochastic Game Theory for Multiagent Reinforcement Learning

    Michael Bowling;Manuela Veloso

  • A Laplacian Framework for option discovery in reinforcement learning

    Marlos C. Machado;Marc G. Bellemare;Michael Bowling

  • Dyna-style planning with linear function approximation and prioritized sweeping

    Richard S. Sutton;Csaba Szepesvári;Alborz Geramifard;Michael Bowling

  • Bayesian sparse sampling for on-line reward optimization

    Tao Wang;Daniel Lizotte;Michael Bowling;Dale Schuurmans

  • Solving heads-up limit Texas Hold'em

    Oskari Tammelin;Neil Burch;Michael Johanson;Michael Bowling

  • Generalization and Regularization in DQN

    Jesse Farebrother;Marlos C. Machado;Michael Bowling

Frequent Co-Authors

Manuela Veloso
Manuela Veloso Carnegie Mellon University
Neil Burch
Neil Burch University of Alberta
Marc Lanctot
Marc Lanctot DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Marc G. Bellemare
Marc G. Bellemare Google (United States)
Dale Schuurmans
Dale Schuurmans University of Alberta
Duane Szafron
Duane Szafron University of Alberta
Csaba Szepesvári
Csaba Szepesvári University of Alberta
Peter Stone
Peter Stone The University of Texas at Austin
Robert C. Holte
Robert C. Holte University of Alberta
Ali Ghodsi
Ali Ghodsi University of Waterloo

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