Paul Ruvolo

pruvolo@cs.ucsd.edu Ph.D. Student Computer Science & Engineering University of California, San Diego

Research

I am fascinated by the prospect of creating machines that can thrive in chaotic social environments. My work involves developing computational techniques for solving the perceptual and senorimotor problems that face all social beings. I am also a firm believer that these techniques must be battle tested in unconstrained situations, away from the lab setting.

Publications

P. Ruvolo, I. Fasel, J.R. Movellan, Learning application-specific meta algorithms for optimization, NIPS 2007 (in process)

J.R. Movellan, F. Tanaka, I. Fasel, C. Taylor, P. Ruvolo, and M. Eckhardt, The RUBI project: a progress report, Proc. ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot Interaction, Arlington, VA, pp. 333-339, March 2007

Education

• UCSD - Current
  • Second Year PhD student in Computer Science.
  • NSF IGERT fellow in Vision and Learning in Humans and Machines.
• Harvey Mudd College, 2003
  • Major: Computer Science (BS)

Backpacking

I love long distance backpacking. I try to get out for at least one week each summer. Over the past two years I have done some pretty awesome hikes. This is a picture of my good friend Ling and I on the John Muir Trail last year (I hadn't showered in about a week so I don't normally look so disheveled... except for around paper deadlines).