Matthew E. Taylor received his doctorate from the Department of Computer Sciences in the summer of 2008 and then completed a postdoc at the University of Southern California. Matt then spent time as an assistant professor at Lafayette College and then as an assistant professor at Washington State University where he held the Allred Distinguished Professorship in Artificial Intelligence. In 2017, he temporarily left academia to help start an artificial intelligence lab in Edmonton, Alberta, with Borealis AI, the artificial intelligence research lab for the Royal Bank of Canada. He is now a tenured associate professor in computer science at the University of Alberta. He has been a PI or co-PI on over $6M USD in competitively awarded research funding from federal, state, and industrial sources, including the National Science Foundation CAREER award. He has (co-)supervised 7 graduated PhD students and 5 MS students, as well as published over 120 peer reviewed papers in conferences and journals. His current fundamental and applied research interests in reinforcement learning, human-in-the-loop AI, multi-agent systems, and robotics.
