News

June 2010: We won first place in both the Trading Agent Competition on Supply Chain Management (TAC SCM) and on Ad Auctions (TAC AA) with our TacTex-2010 agents.

April 2010: We repeated as US robot soccer champions by winning the 2010 US Open RoboCup competition with our team standard platform league team, TT-UT Austin Villa. [details and video highlights]

October 2009: Kurt Dresner successfully defended his dissertation on " Autonomous Intersection Management." He was awarded the Bert Kay Dissertation Award by the CS department, the Outstanding Dissertation Award in Math/Engineering/Sciences by the University, and runner up for IFAAMAS Distinguished Dissertation Award. [Project Page]

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I am the founder and director of the Learning Agents Research Group (LARG) within the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin.

My main research interest in AI is understanding how we can best create complete intelligent agents. I consider adaptation, interaction, and embodiment to be essential capabilites of such agents. Thus, my research focuses mainly on machine learning, multiagent systems, and robotics. To me, the most exciting research topics are those inspired by challenging real-world problems. I believe that complete successful research includes both precise, novel algorithms and fully implemented and rigorously evaluated applications. My application domains have included robot soccer, autonomous bidding agents, autonomous vehicles, autonomic computing, and social agents.