Marlos C. Machado

Marlos C. Machado is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta's Faculty of Science, Department of Computing Science, affiliated with the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) as a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and RLAI principal investigator. His research focuses on reinforcement learning, representation learning, and continual learning, with applications in real-world systems.

Education includes B.Sc. and M.Sc. from UFMG Brazil, and Ph.D. from University of Alberta. Research pioneered temporally-extended exploration concepts and contributed to deep reinforcement learning for stratospheric balloon control.

Awards include:

• Canada CIFAR AI Chair (2021)
• Amii Fellow (2021)
• AISTATS Best Paper Honorable Mention (2022)
• NSERC Discovery Grant for state/temporal abstraction research

Advises 15+ graduate students and secured $882,858 in research funding. Leads the Reinforcement Learning and Artificial Intelligence group developing novel algorithms for credit assignment and exploration.