
Matthew Guzdial
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Academic Affiliations
Areas of Expertise
Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Academic Affiliations
Areas of Expertise
Matthew Guzdial works on creative artificial intelligence and machine learning
Matthew Guzdial works on creative artificial intelligence and machine learning, an area of research that can enable machine learning to move from predicting what has come before to anticipating and creating new possibilities. His research applies AI and machine learning to domains we would typically consider requiring human creativity, such as generating content for video games, visual art and creative commentary. He has applied computational creativity for image classification and generation in a transfer learning framework (beating state of the art baselines), and built a benchmark for the development of new creative ML agents. Matthew has developed machine learning tools to support game designers, such as an intelligent game level editor with an active learning assistant, machine learning approaches for predicting user experience and tools to help with visual theming.
Matthew is a Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii and an Assistant Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. He achieved his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2019 at the Georgia Institute of Technology where his thesis focused on Combinational Machine Learning Creativity. His research has been featured in popular media such as Vice, Time, Motherboard, BBC and Rolling Stone, and his code has been applied to research at Cornell University, Drexel University, Northeastern University, Worcester Polytechnic University, the University of California, Davis, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Matthew has been an organizer for the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Digital Entertainment and Workshop on Knowledge Extraction from Games. He has received the best paper award at the International Conference on Computational Creativity in 2017 and 2019.
Jun 12th 2018
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Aug 19th 2017
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May 4th 2019
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Matthew has received the best paper award at the International Conference on Computational Creativity in 2017 and 2019.
Sep 27th 2023
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A new report by Deloitte Canada on Canada’s national AI ecosystem finds that Canada tops world rankings in talent concentration, with patent growth and per-capita VC investments among the world’s highest.
Sep 25th 2023
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Amii's Chief Scientific Advisor announces partnership with John Carmack to bring greater focus and urgency to the creation of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Sep 21st 2023
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On August 18, Kristen Yu —a PhD Candidate at the University of Alberta — presented “Adventures of AI Directors Early in the Development of Nightingale" at the AI Seminar.
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