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  <Title>Psychology Presenters at URCAD!</Title>
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  <Title>Psychology URCAD Presenters</Title>
  <Tagline>See Them Live on Wednesday, April 12!</Tagline>
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  <Title>Steven Bailey @URCAD XXII</Title>
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    <p>Stephanie's research will explore a recently developed method of hierarchical planning: a hierarchy of abstract Markov decision processes (AMDPs). AMDPs seek to address the immensely challenging problems that decision-making agents face when operating in large environments to solve complex tasks. A hierarchy of AMDPs provides a framework for decomposing such problems into distinct, related subtasks. Her previous tasks for research in this area were to design an AMDP hierarchy for a house-building domain and to collaborate with her lab members to research and write a paper combining the R-MAX algorithm with AMDPs. Currently, she is working with her lab members to research and write a paper on constructing and reasoning over composite objects.</p>
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  <Title>Researcher of the Week: Queenie Tran</Title>
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