Maxim Makatchev's Homepage

Pupils of elder groups should be able to differentiate simple linear forms.

- From a kindergarten teacher's manual,
referring to distinguishing between such shapes as
circles, squares and triangles.

Again, we have survived. Again, we are defeated.

- Seven Samurai (1954)

Maxim Makatchev

PhD student at Robotics Institute, Cargnegie Mellon University

CV: pdf

Machine learning for anomalous pattern detection (Auton Lab). My advisor is Prof. Daniel Neill.
Logic-based and statistical methods for natural language understanding and cognitive modeling.
Human-robot interaction
- BlindAid: Indoor Navigation Assistant for the Blind, a V-Unit project.

Tutoring Scientific Explanations via Natural Language Dialogue
The Why2 intelligent tutoring system: logic-based analysis of utterances, knowledge representation in qualitative physics
Reinforcement learning-based Texas Hold'em Pocker player YesterdaySushi
RoboML, a markup language for human-robot interaction software agents
Mascha (Moscow State U) AGV (CityU HK)

Workshop on Mixed Language Explanations in Learning Environments, in conjunction with AIED 2005, Amsterdam, July 18-22, 2005.
Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2004, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil.
18th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, QR 2004, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
International Conference on Cognitive Modelling, ICCM 2004, Pittsburgh, USA.
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2003, Sydney, Australia.
International Mathematical Summer Center, Analytic number theory. Cetraro, Italy, 2002.
International Symposium on Robotics, 14-17 May, 2000, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
1998 Symposium on Image, Speech, Signal Processing and Robotics, ISSPR'98, 3-4 September, 1998, Hong Kong.
International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science, in Honour of Prof. Manuel Blum's 60th Birthday, 20-24 April, 1998, City University of Hong Kong.

From the tallest to the second tallest academic building in the world.
Work experience that didn't make into my CV.
Quotes from various lectures.
Video archives from City University of Hong Kong. The cult thing. (RealPlayer required.)
One of my favorite art forms is B. Ito's Enka in English.
Japanese links.
Alan Kalter in various languages.

Last update: June, 2008.


Mascha (Moscow State U)	AGV (CityU HK)