My name is Diederik Roijers, and I am an FWO postdoctoral fellow at the AI lab at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).
Before, I was a PhD student in the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group at the Informatics Institute at the University of Amsterdam under the supervision of Shimon Whiteson and Frans Oliehoek. Please check out my PhD project for further details. After that I was a postdoctoral researcher in the TERESA project, at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Oxford.
My main field of interest is decision theoretic planning and learning. Other interests of mine are machine learning, evolutionary computing, e-tutoring systems and education.
If you would like to contact me please e-mail me at droijers(AT)ai[dot]vub(dot)ac{dot}be. My office is located on the tenth floor of building G of the VUB campus, at Pleinlaan 2, Brussels, Belgium.
May 2017 - Our book "Multi-Objective Decision Making" appeared as an e-book and in print. See this link for details and to purchase the book.
March 2017 - Our paper "Efficient evaluation of influenza mitigation strategies using preventive bandits" was pronounced visionary paper at ALA 2017. ☆
November 2016 - My student, Hossam Mossalam (UOx) won the best student thesis abstract award for his masters thesis "Multi-Objective Deep Reinforcement Learning with Optimistic Linear Support" [pdf]. Congratulations Hossam! ☆
October 2016 - I started as an FWO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).
October 2016 - The tutorial I gave together with Shimon Whiteson on "Multi-objective Planning under Uncertainty" at ICAPS 2016 in June is now available on YouTube.
June 2016 - My FWO Postdoctoral Fellowship proposal titled "Learning with Guarantees in Multi-Objective Decision Problems" was granted. I am very excited to be starting at AI lab at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel from October 1, 2016. ☆
June 2016 - Our paper Monte Carlo Tree Search with Options for General Video Game Playing was accepted for publication at CIG 2016.
June 2016 - I received two peer endorsements for the quality of my reviews for IJCAI. ☆
May 24, 2016 - I am now a doctor. [UvA-DARE] ☆
April 2016 - My dissertation is now online. My defence will take place on the 24th of May at 10AM in the Agnietenkapel in Amsterdam.
March 2016 - Our paper Balancing Relevance Criteria through Multi-Objective Optimization was accepted for publication at SIGIR 2016.
November 2015 - Our paper Solving Transition-Independent Multi-agent MDPs with Sparse Interactions was accepted for publication at AAAI 2016.
April 2015 - Our paper Point-Based Planning for Multi-Objective POMDP was accepted for publication at IJCAI 2015.
March 2015 - Our article Computing Convex Coverage Sets for Faster Multi-Objective Coordination was published in JAIR. [link]
January 2015 - Our article Computing Convex Coverage Sets for Faster Multi-Objective Coordination was accepted for publication in JAIR.
January 2015 - We will present a tutorial on Multi-Objective Decision-Making at IJCAI-15.
July 2014 - Our paper Towards Personalised Gaming via Facial Expression Recognition was accepted for publication at AIIDE 2014.
May 2014 - Our paper Queued Pareto Local Search for Multi-Objective Optimization was accepted for publication at PPSN 2014.
December 2013 - Our paper Bounded Approximations for Linear Multi-Objective Planning under Uncertainty was accepted for publication at ICAPS 2014.
December 2013 - Our paper Linear Support for Multi-Objective Coordination Graphs was accepted for publication at AAMAS 2014.
October 2013 - Our article A Survey of Multi-Objective Sequential Decision-Making was published in JAIR (Vol. 48). [link]
September 2013 - Our students (Eugenio Bargiacchi and Camiel Verschoor) and us (Guangliang and I) will be giving a demo at BNAIC 2013 titled Decentralized Solutions and Tactics for RTS.
June 2013 - Our paper Computing Convex Coverage Sets for Multi-Objective Coordination Graphs was accepted for publication at ADT 2013.
December 2012 - Our paper Multi-Objective Variable Elimination for Collaborative Graphical Games was accepted as an extended abstract at AAMAS 2013.