Education
- Ph.D., Computer Science, Rutgers University, in-progress
- M.S., Computer Science, Lehigh University, 2006
- Deployment Strategies for Hybrid Free-Space Optic/Radio Frequency Mobile Networks (PDF)
- B.S., Computer Engineering, Lehigh University, 2003
Research Employment
- Research Engineer, Bosch RTC, Jan 2012
- Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, Rutgers University, Fall 2011
- Internship, Bosch RTC, Summer 2011
- Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, Rutgers University, Spring 2011
- Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, Rutgers University, Fall 2010
- Internship, IBM Research, Summer 2010
- Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, Rutgers University, Fall 2009-Spring 2010
- NSF IGERT Fellow, Dept. of Computer Science, Rutgers University, Fall 2006-Summer 2009
- Research Assistant, VADER Laboratory, Lehigh University, Summer 2005-Summer 2006
Conference Publications
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Toward Data Center Self-Diagnosis Using a Mobile Robot
Jon Lenchner, Canturk Isci, Jeffrey Kephart, Chris Mansley, Jonathan Connell, Suzanne McIntosh
International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), 2011
Best Paper Award
(PDF)
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Sample-Based Planning for Continuous Action Markov Decision Processes
Chris Mansley, Ari Weinstein, Michael Littman
International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2011
(PDF) (Slides) (Video) (Code)
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Robotic Mapping and Monitoring of Data Centers
Chris Mansley, Jonathan Connell, Canturk Isci, Jonathan Lenchner, Jeffrey Kephart, Suzanne McIntosh and Michael Schappert
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011
(PDF) (Slides)
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Online Exploration in Least-Squares Policy Iteration
Lihong Li, Michael Littman and Chris Mansley
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2009
(PDF) (Slides)
- Efficient Motion Planning Strategies for Large-scale Sensor Networks
Jason Derenick, Chris Mansley and John Spletzer
Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), 2006
(PDF)
Workshop Publications
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Sample-based Planning for Continuous Action Markov Decision Processes
Ari Weinstein, Chris Mansley, Michael Littman
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Workshop, 2010
Reinforcement Learning and Search in Very Large Spaces
(PDF)
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Efficient Learning of Dynamics Models using Terrain Classification
Bethany Leffler, Chris Mansley and Michael Littman
European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) Workshop, 2008
International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems (ERLARS)
(PDF) (Slides)
Technical Notes
- MBIE Corrected Optimization Algorithm (gist)
Professional Service
- Reviewer, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA, 2012)
- Organizer, ICAPS 2011 Workshop, Monte-Carlo Tree Search: Theory and Applications
- Reviewer, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA, 2011)
- Auxiliary Reviewer, IEEE/RSJ International Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS, 2006)
Industrial Employment
- Lead Software Engineer, Moritz Aerospace, May 2003 - August 2004
- Software Engineer, Moritz Aerospace, May 1999 - May 2003
Software Contributions
Textbook Errata
- Introduction to Machine Learning by Alpaydin (Website)
- A First Look at Rigorous Probability Theory by Rosenthal (PDF)
- Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning by Williams and Rasmussen (Website)