Research Interests

Active Learning; Developmental Robotics; Manifold Learning; Reinforcement Learning

Dissertation

Jeremy Stober. PhD Thesis. Sensorimotor Embedding: A Developmental Approach to Learning Geometry. University of Texas at Austin. May 2015. (slides)

Refereed Conferences

• Jeremy Stober, Risto Miikkulainen, and Benjamin Kuipers. 2011. Learning Geometry from Sensorimotor Experience. In Proceedings of the First IEEE Joint Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics.
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• Jeremy Stober, Lewis Fishgold, and Benjamin Kuipers. 2009. Learning the Sensorimotor Structure of the Foveated Retina. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics.
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• Jeremy Stober and Benjamin Kuipers. 2008. From Pixels to Policies: A Bootstrapping Agent. Proceedings of the 7th (IEEE) International Conference on Development and Learning.
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Symposia and Consortia

• Jeremy Stober, Lewis Fishgold, and Benjamin Kuipers. 2009. Sensor Map Discovery for Developing Robots. AAAI Fall Symposia Series: Manifold Learning and Its Applications. Appears in AAAI Technical Report FS-09-04.
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• Jeremy Stober. Sensorimotor Models of Space and Object Geometry. IJCAI Doctoral Consortium. July 18th, 2011. Barcelona, Spain.
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• Jeremy Stober. Learning Sensor, Space and Object Geometry. AAAI Doctoral Consortium. August 7th-8th, 2011. San Fransisco, CA.
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Poster Presentations

• Jeremy Stober. 2009. Mental Adjustments for Changing Autonomous Robots. Presented at the Robot Learning Summer School in Lisboa, Portugal.
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Recent Positions

• Datamining Scientist, Apple (Current)
• Datamining Intern, Apple (Late Summer and Fall 2011)
• Visiting Researcher at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland (Summer 2011)
• Teaching Assistant for CS 345 Programming Languages (Fall 2010 and Spring 2011)
• Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan (Summer 2010)

Memberships

ICDL/EpiRob 2012 Program Committee; AAAI Student Member; IEEE Student Member; IEEE Technical Committee on Robot Learning; IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

Awards

PayPal Scholarship; MCD Fellowship; Outstanding Teaching Assistant 2008; Phi Beta Kappa