Mark Richards, Ph.D. Student

Computer Science Department University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 201 N. Goodwin Ave. Urbana, IL 61801 Room 3307 Office Phone: (217) 333-5808 Fax: (866) 753-4308 Contact Resume

Research Publications

• Richards, M., Amir, E., “Opponent modeling in Scrabble,” Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1482-1487, Hyderabad, India, January 2007
  Articles in the media about our work on Scrabble:
  • Linda Paulson, IEEE Computer Magazine, Mar 2007 (see page 2).
  • Kristen Sackley, Front page of Daily Illini, Feb 2007.
  • Duncan Graham-Rowe, New Scientist Magazine, Jan 2007.
  • Featured on UIUC College of Engineering home page
  • Feature article for UIUC Computer Science Department throughout Jan 2007.
• Giunta, A., Swiler, L., Brown, S., Eldred, M., Richards, M., Cyr, E., “The Surfpack software library for surrogate modeling of sparse irregularly spaced multidimensional data,” In 11th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Portsmouth, Virginia, September 2006. paper AIAA-2006-7049.
• Richards, M., Ventura, D., “Choosing a starting configuration in particle swarm optimization,” Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Budapest, Hungary, July 2004.
• Richards, M. “Improving particle swarm optimization,” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, February 2004.
• Richards, M., Ventura, D., “Dynamic sociometry in particle swarm optimization,” Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Natural Computing, 1557-1560, Cary, North Carolina, September 2003.