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Chris earned a MEng in Applied Cybernetics in 2012 and since then has been working as the Lead RnD Engineer at the start-up import.io. Chris got bored of working in industry and wanted to do something really challenging. In his spare time away from programming, he enjoys drinking, angry music and going to the gym.

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GAIG Publications

2023

2022

2021

• 2021 Griddly: A platform for AI research in games
  Bamford, Chris, in Software Impacts, 8, pp. 100066, 2021.
  pubs-2021  reinforcement-learning  griddly  strategy-games
  
  
• 2021 Gym-μRTS: Toward Affordable Full Game Real-time Strategy Games Research with Deep Reinforcement Learning
  Huang, Shengyi and Ontanon, Santiago and Bamford, Chris and Grela, Lukasz, in arXiv:2105.13807, 2021.
  pubs-2021  reinforcement-learning  strategy-games  microrts
  
  

2020

• IEEE COG 2020 Neural Game Engine: Accurate learning of generalizable forward models from pixels
  Bamford, Chris and Lucas, Simon M, in IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), pp. 81-88, 2020.
  pubs-2020  ieee-cog  reinforcement-learning  mcts  gvgai  general-video-game-playing  learning-forward-models