PhD Dissertation
New Representations and Approximations for Sequential Decision Making under Uncertainty
Department of Compuitng Science, University of Alberta, 2007 [pdf]
Finalist for the Department of Computing Science 2007 Ph.D. Thesis Award
Journal Articles
Dual Representations for Dynamic Programming
Tao Wang, Daniel Lizotte, Michael Bowling, and Dale Schuurmans.
In revision, 2009.
Dynamic Motion Models in Monte Carlo Localization
Adam Milstein and Tao Wang.
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 3, pages 243-262, 2007.
Speaker Recognition and its Applications
Tao Wang and Naiping Xu.
Journal of Microprocessors, Vol. 4, pages 50-54, November 1997.
Conference Publications
Stable Dual Dynamic Programming
Tao Wang, Daniel Lizotte, Michael Bowling, and Dale Schuurmans.
In Proceedings of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20
(NIPS), pages 1569-1576, 2008 [pdf] [Poster][Spotlight]
Dual Representations for Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning
Tao Wang, Michael Bowling, and Dale Schuurmans.
2007 IEEE International Symposium on Approximate Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning [pdf]
Winner of the Best Student Paper Award
Automatic Gait Optimization with Gaussian Process Regression
Daniel Lizotte, Tao Wang, Michael Bowling, and Dale Schuurmans.
In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007) [pdf]
Compact, Convex Upper Bound Iteration for Approximate POMDP Planning
Tao Wang, Pascal Poupart, Michael Bowling, and Dale Schuurmans.
In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(AAAI 2006) [pdf] [AAAI06 talk]
Action Selection in Bayesian Reinforcement Learning
Tao Wang.
In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(AAAI 2006) [pdf] [AAAI06-DC talk]
Localization With Dynamic Motion Models: Determining motion model parameters dynamically in Monte Carlo Localization
Adam Milstein and Tao Wang.
In Proc. of the Third International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2006) [pdf]
Bayesian Sparse Sampling for On-line Reward Optimization,
Tao Wang, Daniel Lizotte, Michael Bowling, and Dale Schuurmans.
In Proceedings of the Twenty-second International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2005)
[pdf] [ICML05 talk] [NIPS05-workshop talk]
Collective Sorting with Multiple Robots,
Tao Wang and Hong Zhang.
In Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2004) [pdf]
Multi-Robot Collective Sorting with Local Sensing,
Tao Wang and Hong Zhang.
In Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Automation Conference (IAC 2003) [pdf]
Experimental Results Towards Content-Based Sub-Image Retrieval,
Tao Wang, Juhua Shi, and Mario A. Nascimento.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC 2002) [pdf]
Speaker Recognition Based on Continuous Gaussian Mixture HMM,
Tao Wang and Naiping Xu.
In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of Graduate students' Academic Reports, 1996.
A Multichannel Data Acquisition and Dynamic Display System,
Tao Wang.
In Proceedings of the 1st Conference of Graduate students' Academic Reports, 1994.
Book Chapters
Biologically Inspired Collective Robotics.
C. Ronald Kube, Chris A. C. Parker, Tao Wang, and Hong Zhang.
Chapter 15 in Recent Developments in Biologically Inspired Computing,
Leandro Nunes de Castro and Fernando J. Von Zuben, eds.
Publisher: Idea Group Inc. (IGI). (2004). ISBN: 159140313-8