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Diego Pérez-Liébana has joined the Game AI research group of the Queen Mary University of London on 2nd January 2018. Diego Pérez-Liébana is currently a Senior Lecturer in Computer Games and Artificial Intelligence at Queen Mary University of London (UK), having achieved a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Essex (2015). He has published in the domain of Game AI, with interests on Reinforcement Learning and Evolutionary Computation. He organised several Game AI competitions, such as the Physical Traveling Salesman Problem and the General Video Game AI competitions, held in IEEE conferences. He has programming experience in the video games industry with titles published for game consoles and PC.

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GAIG Publications

2023

2022

2021

• AAMAS 2021 Action Advising with Advice Imitation in Deep Reinforcement Learning
  Ilhan, Ercument and Gow, Jeremy and Perez-Liebana, Diego, in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2021.
  pubs-2021  aamas  reinforcement-learning
  
  
• 2021 Portfolio Search and Optimization for General Strategy Game-Playing
  Dockhorn, Alexander and Hurtado-Grueso, Jorge and Jeurissen, Dominik and Xu, Linjie and Perez-Liebana, Diego, in arXiv:2104.10429, 2021.
  pubs-2021  arxiv  ai  games  strategy-games  portfolio  optimisation  general-video-game-playing  ntbea
  
  
• 2021 Learning on a Budget via Teacher Imitation
  Ilhan, Ercument and Gow, Jeremy and Perez-Liebana, Diego, in arXiv:2104.08440, 2021.
  pubs-2021  arxiv  reinforcement-learning  action-advising
  
  
• 2021 Generating Diverse and Competitive Play-Styles for Strategy Games
  Perez-Liebana, Diego and Guerrero-Romero, Cristina and Dockhorn, Alexander and Jeurissen, Dominik and Xu, Linjie, in arXiv:2104.08641, 2021.
  pubs-2021  arxiv  ai  games  strategy-games  tribes  mcts  map-elites  play-styles  portfolio
  
  

2020

• SKATG @ AIIDE 2020 STRATEGA: A General Strategy Games Framework
  Dockhorn, Alexander and Grueso, Jorge Hurtado and Jeurissen, Dominik and Liebana, Diego Perez, in AIIDE-20 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Strategy Games, 2020.
  pubs-2020  aiide  strategy-games  general-video-game-playing  rhea  mcts
  
  
• SKATG @ AIIDE 2020 MCTS Pruning in Turn-Based Strategy Games
  Hsu, Yu-Jhen and Liebana, Diego Perez, in AIIDE-20 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Strategy Games, 2020.
  pubs-2020  aiide  strategy-games  mcts  tribes  polytopia  rhea
  
  
• IEEE COG 2020 Evaluating Generalization in General Video Game Playing
  Balla, M and Lucas, Simon and Perez-Liebana, D, in IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 2020.
  pubs-2020  ieee-cog  gvgai  general-vide-game-playing  evaluation