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Education

• B.Sc. (Artificial Intelligence) Hons., University of Liverpool, September 2013 -June 2016 (First-Class Honours)
• In 2019 I completed my PhD Thesis Independent Learning Approaches: Overcoming Multi-Agent Learning Pathologies In Team-Games under the supervision of Prof. Karl Tuyls and Prof. Rahul Savani. My examiners were Dr. Daniel Kudenko (external), Dr. Enda Howley (external) and Dr. Martin Gairing (internal).

Work experience

• February 2019 - July 2020:
  • Research Fellow
  • Geographic Data Science Lab
  • University of Liverpool
  • Supervisors: Professor Alex Singleton and Dr. Mark Green
• Starting August 2020: PostDoc
  • L3S Research Center
  • Leibniz Universität Hannover

Publications

Lenient multi-agent deep reinforcement learning

Palmer, G., Tuyls, K., Bloembergen, D., & Savani, R. (2018). Lenient Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning. In AAMAS (pp. 443-451). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Richland, SC, USA/ACM.

Fully Convolutional One-Shot Object Segmentation for Industrial Robotics

Schnieders, B., Luo, S., Palmer, G., & Tuyls, K. (2019, May). Fully Convolutional One-Shot Object Segmentation for Industrial Robotics. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (pp. 1161-1169).

Negative Update Intervals in Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Palmer, G., Savani, R., & Tuyls, K. (2019, May). Negative Update Intervals in Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (pp. 43-51).

The Automated Inspection of Opaque Liquid Vaccines

Palmer, G., Schnieders, B., Savani, R., Tuyls, K., Fossel, J. D., & Flore, H. (2020). The Automated Inspection of Opaque Liquid Vaccines. arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.09406.

A deep learning approach to identify unhealthy advertisements in street view images

Palmer, G., Green, M., Boyland, E., Rios Vasconcelos, YS., Savani, R., Singleton, A. (2020). A deep learning approach to identify unhealthy advertisements in street view images. arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.04611.

Talks

The Automated Inspection of Opaque Liquid Vaccines

July 06, 2020

Talk at Digital European Conference on Artificial Intelligence: August 29-September 8 2020, Digital ECAI2020

Program Committee Member

• European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020),
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2020),
• Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020).

Reviewing

• Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems,
• Artificial Intelligence,
• Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing,
• Transactions in GIS.

Teaching

Outreach

COMP282 - Advanced Object Orientated C Languages

COMP219 - Artificial Intelligence

COMP305 - Biocomputation

COMP222 - Principles of Computer Game Design and Implementation

COMP122 - Object-Orientated Programming

COMP282 - Advanced Object Orientated C Languages

COMP211 - Computer Networks

COMP305 - Biocomputation

MSc COMP532 - Machine Learning and BioInspired Optimisation (Guest Lecturer)