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Bios September 8, 2021

Melinda Gervasio

SRI International September 8, 2021

Associate Technical Director, Artificial Intelligence Center

Melinda Gervasio, Ph.D., is an Associate Technical Director in SRI’s Artificial Intelligence Center. She focuses on developing technology that combines human and machine intelligence.

Gervasio’s research interests include intelligent assistants, machine learning for autonomous agents, adaptive personalization, interactive machine learning, end-user programming, and intelligent training systems. As the technical lead on a number of government-funded projects, she has developed technologies for learning from demonstration, adaptive assistance, proactive decision support, and recommendation for informal learning.

Before joining SRI, Gervasio co-founded MindShadow, where she played a key technical role in developing a software platform for personalized, content-based recommendation. She was also a research scientist at the Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise, where she worked on adaptive personalization.

Gervasio has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. in computer science from the University of the Philippines Diliman.

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Interestingness Elements for Explainable Reinforcement Learning: Understanding Agents’ Capabilities and Limitations (11/1/2020) - We propose an explainable reinforcement learning (XRL) framework that analyzes an agent’s history of interaction with the environment to extract…
Learning Procedures by Augmenting Sequential Pattern Mining with Planning Knowledge (8/1/2020) - Procedure automation can relieve users of the burden of repetitive, time-consuming, or complex procedures and enable them to focus on…
Bridging the Gap: Converting Human Advice into Imagined Examples (8/3/2019) - Advice is a powerful tool for learning. But advice also presents the challenge of bridging the gap between the high-level…

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