Which topics do you plan to work on in the next few years?

• Applying game AI to real-world decision making
• Hierarchical reasoning
• Game reconstruction from partial evidence
• Strategy explanation
• Statistical Forward Planning methods for complex games
• Feature learning for MCTS
• Intrinsically motivated reinforcement learning in video game AI
• Goal based RL
• Self-supervised RL

• Mutiagent self-play reinforcement learning

• Alternatives to RL for model learning and inferential processes in agents (e.g. free energy principle, empowerment).

• Content evaluation
• General game design

• Puzzle generation/solving

• Physically-based animation
• User studies looking at the effect on player experience when customising sensor-based controls in virtual reality
• Personalized games with AI for health
• The definition of game description languages and the development of commercial serious games.