Academic Research

I am interested in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. I have a keen interest in Reinforcement Learning and Multiagent Systems.

Interesting Data

During my Pattern recognition class we had to build a system to be able to recommend when it is best to buy airline tickets. Simply choose the best days to buy that lead to maximum savings for the customer. I have made the data available as it took us a long time process it. So if you want to play around with it you can. Will make available the project outcomes later.
File: FlightData.zip (~2 MB)
Description of Data is in README.txt
Acknowledgement: Erick Chastain and Runhe Tian

Courses Taken at Graduate Level

Currently Taking:

Independent Study in Reinforcement Learning

Completed:

CS529: Computational Geometry
CS672: Graph Mining and Network Analysis
CS510: Numerical Analysis
CS536: Pattern Recognition
CS530: Principles of Artificial Intelligence
CS503: Computational Thinking (Very Interesting course)
CS513: Analysis of Data Structures and Algorithms (I am in Computer Science now, have to act the part)
CS534: Computer Vision
CS536: Machine Learning
Light Seminar: Algorithms, Game theory and Data Mining for Internet Ad Systems
Light Seminar on Bioinformatics
Light Seminar: Machine Learning
Light Seminar on Personal Information Management

Publications

Recent:

  • Monica Babes, Vukosi Marivate, Kaushik Subramanian, Michael Littman,"Apprenticeship Learning About Multiple Intentions", ICML 2011 [PDF link]
  • Jordan Ash, Monica Babes, Gal Cohen, Sameen Jalal, Michael Littman, Vukosi Marivate, Philip Quiza, Blase U, "Scratchable Devices: User-Friendly Programming for Household Appliances",HCI International. 2011

Past:

  • V.N. Marivate, V. F. Nelwamondo, T. Marwala, "Investigation into the use of Autoencoder Neural Networks, Principal Component Analysis and Support Vector Regression in estimating missing HIV data", Proceedings of the 17th World Congress of The International Federation of Automatic Control, pp 682-689, 2008
  • V. Marivate, G. Ssali, T. Marwala, "An Intelligent Multiagent Recommender System for Human Capacity Building", Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, pp 909 - 915, 2008. (IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Competition Finalist) [PDF link]
  • V.N. Marivate and T. Marwala, “Social Learning Methods in Board Game Agents”, 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG'08), pp. 323-328, 2008.
  • V.N. Marivate and T. Marwala. “Relational networks for HIV classification”, The Second IASTED Africa Conference on Modeling and Simulation, 2008.


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