Ashton Anderson
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Reid McIlroy-Young [1]
Ashton Anderson,
a Canadian computer scientist and assistant professor at University of Toronto, broadly interested in research that bridges the gap between computer science and the social sciences [2].
In 2008, he graduated from McGill University with a Bachelor of Engineering in software engineering, and completed his Master's degree in computer science at Stanford University in June 2010 under Yoav Shoham, and his Ph.D. at Stanford in 2015 under Jure Leskovec.
As a chess player, along with Reid McIlroy-Young, Russell Wang, Siddhartha Sen and Jon Kleinberg, Ashton Anderson is involved in the Maia Chess project of a human-like neural network chess engine [3].
Selected Publications
2010 ...
- Ashton Anderson, Yoav Shoham, Alon Altman (2012). Internal Implementation. AAMAS 2010, pdf
- Ashton Anderson, Daniel Huttenlocher, Jon Kleinberg, Jure Leskovec (2012). Effects of user similarity in social media. WSDM '12, pdf
- Ashton Anderson, Daniel Huttenlocher, Jon Kleinberg, Jure Leskovec (2012). Discovering value from community activity on focused question answering sites: a case study of stack overflow. ACM SIGKDD 2012, pdf [6]
- Ashton Anderson, Daniel Huttenlocher, Jon Kleinberg, Jure Leskovec (2013). Steering user behavior with badges. IW3C2, pdf
- Ashton Anderson, Daniel Huttenlocher, Jon Kleinberg, Jure Leskovec (2014). Engaging with Massive Online Courses. arXiv:1403.3100
- Ashton Anderson, Jon Kleinberg, Sendhil Mullainathan (2016). Assessing Human Error Against a Benchmark of Perfection. ACM SIGKDD 2016, arXiv:1606.04956
2020 ...
- Reid McIlroy-Young, Siddhartha Sen, Jon Kleinberg, Ashton Anderson (2020). Aligning Superhuman AI with Human Behavior: Chess as a Model System. In Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD 2020, arXiv:2006.01855
- Reid McIlroy-Young, Russell Wang, Siddhartha Sen, Jon Kleinberg, Ashton Anderson (2020). Learning Personalized Models of Human Behavior in Chess. arXiv:2008.10086
External Links
- Ashton Anderson - University of Toronto
- Ashton Anderson - Google Scholar
- Personal bests – and why you stop after achieving them: U of T Scarborough expert | University of Toronto Scarborough - News and Events by Nina Haikara, February 7, 2018
- Ashton Anderson chess games - 365Chess.com
