Adam White

Adam White is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Science (Computing Science) at the University of Alberta. He serves as Director of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute and holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. As Principal Investigator of the Reinforcement Learning and Artificial Intelligence Lab (RLAI), his research focuses on continual learning, reinforcement learning, robotics, and knowledge representation.

His educational background includes a PhD and MSc in Computing Science from the University of Alberta, and a BSc in Computer Science from the University of New Brunswick. Research interests span reinforcement learning algorithms, machine learning robustness, and applications in real-world systems like water treatment.

Teaching contributions include courses on AI, reinforcement learning, and machine learning, along with creating the Reinforcement Learning MOOC on Coursera. Awards include the prestigious Canada CIFAR AI Chair recognition for contributions to artificial intelligence research.