Joel Lehman
Postdoctoral Alumni
Joel got his PhD with Ken Stanley at UCF in 2012, focusing on novelty search in neuroevolution. He was a Research Educator in the Freshman Research Initiative program at UT, teaching the "Computational Intelligence in Game Design" stream. His research goal is to write algorithms inspired by natural evolution that continually produce a wild diversity of interesting and complex things. After UT he went to a faculty position at the IT University of Copenhagen.
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Designing Neural Networks through Evolutionary Algorithms Kenneth O. Stanley, Jeff Clune, Joel Lehman, and Risto Miikkulainen Nature Machine Intelligence, 1:24–35, 2019. 2019

Tradeoffs in Neuroevolutionary Learning-Based Real-Time Robotic Task Design in the Imprecise Computation Framework Pei-Chi Huang, Luis Sentis, Joel Lehman, Chien-Liang Fok, Aloysius K. Mok, Risto Miikkulainen ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, 3, 2019. DOI 0.1145/3178903. 2019

Learning Behavior Characterizations for Novelty Search Elliot Meyerson, Joel Lehman and Risto Miikkulainen To Appear In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2016),... 2016

General Video Game Playing as a Benchmark for Human-Competitive AI Joel Lehman and Risto Miikkulainen In AAAI-15 Workshop on Beyond the Turing Test, 2015. 2015

Enhancing Divergent Search through Extinction Events Joel Lehman and Risto Miikkulainen To Appear In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2015),... 2015

Extinction Events Can Accelerate Evolution Joel Lehman and Risto Miikkulainen PLoS ONE, 10(8):e0132886 https://doi.org/10.13, 2015. 2015

Overcoming Deception in Evolution of Cognitive Behaviors Joel Lehman and Risto Miikkulainen To Appear In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2014),... 2014

An Anarchy of Methods: Current Trends in How AI is Abstracted in AI Joel Lehman, Jeff Clune and Sebastian Risi Intelligent Systems magazine, 29(6):56-62, 2014. 2014

Grasping Novel Objects with a Dexterous Robotic Hand through Neuroevolution Pei-Chi Huang, Joel Lehman, Aloysius K. Mok, Risto Miikkulainen, Luis Sentis In IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, 2014. IEEE. 2014

Effective Diversity Maintenance in Deceptive Domains Joel Lehman, Kenneth O. Stanley and Risto Miikkulainen To Appear In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2013,... 2013

Neuroevolution Joel Lehman and Risto Miikkulainen Scholarpedia, 8(6):30977, 2013. 2013

Boosting Interactive Evolution using Human Computation Markets Joel Lehman and Risto Miikkulainen To Appear In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natura... 2013

A Neuroevolution Approach to General Atari Game Playing Matthew Hausknecht and Joel Lehman and Risto Miikkulainen and Peter Stone IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, 2013. 2013