Martha White

Martha White is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing Sciences at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Science. Her research focuses on developing algorithms for agents that continually learn from streams of data, with an emphasis on representation learning and reinforcement learning. She serves as a Principal Investigator at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (AMII) and is the director of the Reinforcement Learning and Artificial Intelligence Lab (RLAI) at the University of Alberta. Martha has supervised over 30 early-career researchers and has authored more than 40 papers in top journals and conferences. Outside of her academic pursuits, she enjoys soccer, outdoor activities, cooking, and reading science fiction.