Publications

Publication list updates still in progress: manually verified citations and PDFs so far for 2023–2024 only.
(2024). Joint Action is a Framework for Understanding Partnerships Between Humans and Upper Limb Prostheses. IEEE EMBS 10th International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2024), 1–4 September, Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 1–7.

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(2024). Evidence that a deep learning regression-based controller mitigates the limb position effect for an individual with transradial amputation. Myoelectric Controls Symposium (MEC24), 12–15 August, Fredericton, NB, Canada, pp. 1–4.

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(2024). A Virtual Reality Training Environment for Myoelectric Prosthesis Grasp Control with Sensory Feedback. Myoelectric Controls Symposium (MEC24), 12–15 August, Fredericton, NB, Canada, pp. 1–4.

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(2024). A Preliminary Investigation Into Bio-Inspired Data Collection for Transhumeral Targeted Muscle Reinnervation Prosthetic Control. Myoelectric Controls Symposium (MEC24), 12–15 August, Fredericton, NB, Canada, pp. 1–4.

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(2024). A multifaceted suite of metrics for comparative myoelectric prosthesis controller research. PLoS ONE, 19(5): e0291279.

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(2024). Myoelectric Prosthesis Control using Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network Regression Mitigates the Limb Position Effect. bioRxiv 2024.02.05.578477.

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(2024). Generating accurate 3D gaze vectors using synchronized eye tracking and motion capture. Behavior Research Methods, 56: 18–31.

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(2023). A Case Series in Position-Aware Myoelectric Prosthesis Control Using Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network Classification with Transfer Learning. 2023 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), Singapore, pp. 1–6.

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(2023). Communicative capital: A key resource for human-machine shared agency and collaborative capacity. Neural Computing and Applications, 35(23): 16805–16819.

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(2023). What's a good prediction? Challenges in evaluating an agent's knowledge. Adaptive Behavior, 31(3): 197-212.

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(2023). Adaptive patch foraging in deep reinforcement learning agents. Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 667: 1–19. Also appeared in short form at the 5th Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM2022).

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(2023). Embodied communication: How robots and people communicate through physical interaction. Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, 6: 205–232.

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(2022). Continually Learned Pavlovian Signalling Without Forgetting for Human-in-the-Loop Robotic Control. NeurIPS Workshop on Human in the Loop Learning (HiLL), pp. 1–11. Also arXiv:2305.14365 [cs.LG].

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(2022). The Alberta plan for AI research. arXiv:2208.11173 [cs.AI].

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(2022). The Frost Hollow Experiments: Pavlovian signalling as a path to coordination and communication between agents. arXiv:2203.09498 [cs.AI].

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(2022). What Should I Know? Using Meta-gradient Descent for Predictive Feature Discovery in a Single Stream of Experience. Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs 2022).

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(2022). Towards situated communication in multi-step interactions: Time is a key pressure in communication emergence. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2022). Situated communication: A solution to over-communication between artificial agents. Emergent Communication Workshop at ICLR 2022.

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(2022). Robotics, Autonomous Systems, and AI for Nonurgent/Nonemergent Healthcare Delivery During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic. Frontiers in Robotics and AI.

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(2022). Robotics, Autonomous Systems and AI for Nonurgent/Nonemergent Healthcare Delivery During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic. Frontiers Media SA.

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(2022). Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks as an Approach to Position-Aware Myoelectric Prosthesis Control. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.

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(2022). Prototyping three key properties of specific curiosity in computational reinforcement learning. The 5th Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM2022).

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(2022). Preliminary testing of eye gaze interfaces for controlling a haptic system intended to support play in children with physical impairments: Attentive versus explicit interfaces. Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering.

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(2022). Prediction, Knowledge, And Explainability: Examining The Use of General Value Functions in Machine Knowledge. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.

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(2022). Pavlovian Signalling with General Value Functions in Agent-Agent Temporal Decision Making. Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA) Workshop at AAMAS 2022.

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(2022). Over-communicate no more: Situated RL agents learn concise communication protocols. arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.01480.

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(2022). Machine-learned Adaptive Switching in Voluntary Lower-limb Exoskeleton Control: Preliminary Results. 17th IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR).

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(2022). Five Properties of Specific Curiosity You Didn't Know Curious Machines Should Have. arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.00187.

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(2022). Composite Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks Offer a Position-Aware Prosthesis Control Alternative While Balancing Predictive Accuracy with Training Burden. 2022 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR).

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(2022). Communication Emergence in a Goal-Oriented Environment: Towards Situated Communication in Multi-Step Interactions. RLDM.

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(2022). Assessing human interaction in virtual reality with continually learning prediction agents based on reinforcement learning algorithms: A pilot study. Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA) Workshop at AAMAS 2022.

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(2022). A Brief Guide to Designing and Evaluating Human-Centered Interactive Machine Learning. SMILES ICLR Workshop 2022; also arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.09622.

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(2021). Sub-centimeter 3d gaze vector accuracy on real-world tasks: An investigation of eye and motion capture calibration routines. ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications.

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(2021). Myoelectric prosthesis users and non-disabled individuals wearing a simulated prosthesis exhibit similar compensatory movement strategies. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation.

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(2021). Machine Learning for the Control of Prosthetic Arms: Using Electromyographic Signals for Improved Performance. IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE.

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(2021). Finding Useful Predictions by Meta-gradient Descent to Improve Decision-making. NeurIPS 2021 Workshop: Self-Supervised Learning - Theory and Practice.

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(2021). Embodied cooperation to promote forgiving interactions with autonomous machines. Frontiers in neurorobotics.

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(2021). Comparison of a Miniaturized Cassette PCR System with a Commercially Available Platform for Detecting Escherichia coli in Beef Carcass Swabs. Micromachines.

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(2020). What's a Good Prediction? Issues in Evaluating General Value Functions Through Error.. arXiv [Preprint]. arXiv: 2001.08823.

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(2020). Interpretable PID parameter tuning for control engineering using general dynamic neural networks: An extensive comparison. Plos One.

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(2020). Gamma-nets: Generalizing value estimation over timescale. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

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(2020). Examining the use of temporal-difference incremental delta-bar-delta for real-world predictive knowledge architectures. Frontiers in Robotics and AI.

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(2020). Document-editing assistants and model-based reinforcement learning as a path to conversational AI. arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.12095.

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(2020). Compensatory strategies of body-powered prosthesis users reveal primary reliance on trunk motion and relation to skill level. Clinical Biomechanics.

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(2020). BrachIOPlexus: Myoelectric training software for clinical and research applications. MEC20 Symposium.

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(2020). A TRANSRADIAL MODULAR ADAPTABLE PLATFORM FOR EVALUATING PROSTHETIC FEEDBACK AND CONTROL STRATEGIES. MEC Symposium.

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(2019). When is a prediction knowledge?. arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.09024.

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(2019). The effect of an automatically levelling wrist control system. 2019 IEEE 16th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR).

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(2019). Supporting Play by Applying Haptic Guidance Along a Surface Learnt from Single Motion Trajectories. 2019 IEEE 16th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR).

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(2019). Quantitative eye gaze and movement differences in visuomotor adaptations to varying task demands among upper-extremity prosthesis users. JAMA network open.

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(2019). Predicting the toys that children and participants with cerebral palsy want to reach while controlling a haptic telerobotic system. ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY.

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(2019). Predicting the toys that children and participants with cerebral palsy want to reach while controlling a haptic telerobotic system. Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America Annual Conference. Toronto, Canada.

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(2019). Meta-learning for Predictive Knowledge Architectures: A Case Study Using TIDBD on a Sensor-rich Robotic Arm.. AAMAS.

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(2019). Learning feature relevance through step size adaptation in temporal-difference learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.03252.

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(2019). Learned human-agent decision-making, communication and joint action in a virtual reality environment. The 4th Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making, July 7-10, 2019, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; also arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.02691.

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(2019). Hand function kinematics when using a simulated myoelectric prosthesis. 2019 IEEE 16th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR).

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(2019). General Dynamic Neural Networks for explainable PID parameter tuning in control engineering: An extensive comparison. CoRR.

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(2019). Gaze and Movement Assessment (GaMA): Inter-site validation of a visuomotor upper limb functional protocol. PLoS One.

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(2019). Exploring the impact of machine-learned predictions on feedback from an artificial limb. 2019 IEEE 16th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR).

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(2019). Detection of pathogenic Escherichia coli on potentially contaminated beef carcasses using cassette PCR and conventional PCR. BMC microbiology.

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(2019). Comparison of attentive and explicit eye gaze interfaces for controlling haptic guidance of a robotic controller. Journal of Medical Robotics Research.

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(2019). Comparison between two different prompting conditions when children use a lego robot to perform a set of tasks. ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY.

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(2019). Characterization of normative angular joint kinematics during two functional upper limb tasks. Gait & posture.

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(2018). Using synchronized eye and motion tracking to determine high-precision eye-movement patterns during object-interaction tasks. Journal of vision.

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(2018). Tidbd: Adapting temporal-difference step-sizes through stochastic meta-descent. arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.03334.

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(2018). Reactive Reinforcement Learning in Asynchronous Environments. Frontiers in Robotics and AI.

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(2018). Preliminary testing of a telerobotic haptic system and analysis of visual attention during a playful activity. 2018 7th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (Biorob).

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(2018). Predictions, Surprise, and Predictions of Surprise in General Value Function Architectures. AAAI 2018 Fall Symposium on Reasoning and Learning in Real-World Systems for Long-Term Autonomy.

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(2018). Peripheral Nervous System-Machine Interfaces. Frontiers Media SA.

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(2018). Monitoring food pathogens: novel instrumentation for cassette PCR testing. PLoS One.

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(2018). Leveraging Physical Models for Gentle Manipulation. Modeling the Physical World: Perception, Learning, and Control, NeurIPS 2018 Workshop.

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(2018). Initial investigation of a self-adjusting wrist control system to maintain prosthesis terminal device orientation relative to the ground reference frame. 2018 7th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob).

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(2018). Incrementally Added GVFs are Learned Faster with the Successor Representation. Lifelong Learning: A Reinforcement Learning Approach (LLARLA-2018), FAIM 2018 Workshop (ICML/AAMAS).

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(2018). Generalizing Value Estimation over Timescale. FAIM workshop on Prediction and Generative Modeling in Reinforcement Learning.

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(2018). Evaluating Predictive Knowledge. AAAI 2018 Fall Symposium on Reasoning and Learning in Real-World Systems for Long-Term Autonomy.

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(2018). Context-Aware Learning from Demonstration: Using Camera Data to Support the Synergistic Control of a Multi-Joint Prosthetic Arm. 2018 7th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (Biorob).

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(2018). Cluster-based upper body marker models for three-dimensional kinematic analysis: Comparison with an anatomical model and reliability analysis. Journal of biomechanics.

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(2018). Characterization of normative hand movements during two functional upper limb tasks. PLoS One.

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(2018). Achieving Gentle Manipulation with Deep Reinforcement Learning. Deep Reinforcement Learning Workshop, NeurIPS 2018.

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(2018). Accelerating learning in constructive predictive frameworks with the successor representation. 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

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(2017). Upper and Lower Limb Robotic Prostheses. Robotic Assistive Technologies: Principles and Practice.

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(2017). Representing high-dimensional data to intelligent prostheses and other wearable assistive robots: A first comparison of tile coding and selective Kanerva coding. 2017 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR).

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(2017). Reinforcement learning based embodied agents modelling human users through interaction and multi-sensory perception. 2017 AAAI Spring Symposium Series.

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(2017). Peripheral nervous system-machine interfaces (PNS-MI). Frontiers in Neurorobotics.

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(2017). Learning from Demonstration: Teaching a Myoelectric Prosthesis with an Intact Limb via Reinforcement Learning. Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Rehab. Robotics (ICORR).

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(2017). DEVELOPMENT OF THE HANDI HAND: AN INEXPENSIVE, MULTI-ARTICULATING, SENSORIZED HAND FOR MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH IN MYOELECTRIC CONTROL. MEC ‘17: Myoelectric Controls Symposium.

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(2017). Communicative capital for prosthetic agents. arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.03676.

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(2017). Assessment of feature selection and classification methods for recognizing motor imagery tasks from electroencephalographic signals.. Artif. Intell. Res..

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(2017). Actor-critic reinforcement learning with simultaneous human control and feedback. arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.01274.

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(2016). True online temporal-difference learning. Journal of Machine Learning Research.

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(2016). Steps Toward Knowledgeable Neuroprostheses. The 6th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2016).

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(2016). Machine Learning and Unlearning to Autonomously Switch Between the Functions of a Myoelectric Arm. The 6th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2016).

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(2016). Introspective agents: Confidence measures for general value functions. Artificial General Intelligence: 9th International Conference, AGI 2016, New York, NY, USA, July 16-19, 2016, Proceedings 9.

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(2016). Face valuing: Training user interfaces with facial expressions and reinforcement learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.02807.

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(2016). Application of real-time machine learning to myoelectric prosthesis control: A case series in adaptive switching. Prosthetics and orthotics international.

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(2015). Prosthetic Devices as Goal-Seeking Agents. Second Workshop on Present and Future of Non-Invasive Peripheral-Nervous-System Machine Interfaces: Progress in Restoring the Human Functions (PNS-MI).

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(2015). Novel Control Strategies for Arm Prostheses: A Partnership between Man and Machine. The Japanese Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine.

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(2015). MicroRNAs as potential therapeutic agents for AML: Targeting the AML1-ETO Oncogene by pre-miR-520 and-373. Cancer Research.

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(2015). An empirical evaluation of true online td ($$$backslash$lambda$$). arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.00353.

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(2015). A collaborative approach to the simultaneous multi-joint control of a prosthetic arm. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR).

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(2014). Using learned predictions as feedback to improve control and communication with an artificial limb: Preliminary findings. arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.1913.

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(2014). Proceedings of the first workshop on peripheral machine interfaces: Going beyond traditional surface electromyography. Frontiers in neurorobotics.

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(2014). NOTCH2 and FLT3 gene mis-splicings are common events in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML): new potential targets in AML. Blood, The Journal of the American Society of Hematology.

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(2014). Multilayer General Value Functions for Robotic Prediction and Control. 2014 IROS Workshop on AI and Robotics.

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(2014). First steps towards an intelligent laser welding architecture using deep neural networks and reinforcement learning. Procedia Technology.

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(2014). Development of the Bento Arm: An Improved Robotic Arm for Myoelectric Training and Research. MEC ‘14: Myoelectric Controls Symposium.

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(2014). Dealing with Changing Contexts in Myoelectric Control. MEC ‘14: Myoelectric Controls Symposium.

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(2014). Aligning homeostatic and heterostatic Perspectives. Constructivist Foundations.

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(2014). Adaptive Switching in Practice: Improving Myoelectric Prosthesis Performance through Reinforcement Learning. MEC ‘14: Myoelectric Controls Symposium.

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(2014). A genome-wide aberrant RNA splicing in patients with acute myeloid leukemia identifies novel potential disease markers and therapeutic targets. Clinical cancer research.

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(2013). Temporal-difference learning to assist human decision making during the control of an artificial limb. arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.4714.

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(2013). Real-time Prediction Learning for the Simultaneous Actuation of Multiple Prosthetic Joints. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR).

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(2013). Nanotechnology and medical devices: Risk, regulation and ‘meta’ registration. World Journal of Engineering.

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(2013). Nanotechnology & Medical Devices: Risk, Regulation and ‘Meta’Registration. World Journal of Engineering.

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(2013). Determining the Time until Muscle Fatigue using Temporally Extended Prediction Learning. 18th International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society Conference (IFESS).

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(2013). B lymphocytes as cancer stem cells in multiple myeloma. The Journal of OncoPathology.

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(2013). Alternative splicing in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML): a novel therapeutic target?. Current cancer drug targets.

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(2013). Adaptive Artificial Limbs: A Real-time Approach to Prediction and Anticipation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine.

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(2013). Aberrant splicing, hyaluronan synthases and intracellular hyaluronan as drivers of oncogenesis and potential drug targets. Current Cancer Drug Targets.

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(2012). Cell Analysis On Microfluidic Chips.

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(2012). Tuning-free step-size adaptation. 2012 IEEE international conference on acoustics, speech and signal processing (ICASSP).

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(2012). Pushrim kinetics and coordination patterns of shoulder muscles during surface and incline wheelchair propulsion. 17th International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society Conference 2012 (IFESS).

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(2012). Nanotechnology & Medical Devices: Risk, Regulation and ‘Meta’Registration.

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(2012). Model-Free Reinforcement Learning with Continuous Action in Practice. 2012 American Control Conference (ACC).

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(2012). Dynamic switching and real-time machine learning for improved human control of assistive biomedical robots. 2012 4th IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob).

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(2012). Between Instruction and Reward: Human-Prompted Switching. AAAI Fall Symposium on Robots Learning Interactively from Human Teachers.

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(2012). Apprentissage par Renforcement sans Modèle et avec Action Continue. 7èmes Journées Francophones Planification, Décision, et Apprentissage pour la conduite de systèmes (JFPDA 2012).

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(2012). Acquiring a Broad Range of Empirical Knowledge in Real Time by Temporal-Difference Learning. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.

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(2011). Online human training of a myoelectric prosthesis controller via actor-critic reinforcement learning. 2011 IEEE international Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR).

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(2011). Horde: a scalable real-time architecture for learning knowledge from unsupervised sensorimotor interaction. 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS).

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(2010). Towards robust cellular image classification: theoretical foundations for wide-angle scattering pattern analysis. Biomedical Optics Express.

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(2010). Off-Policy Knowledge Maintenance for Robots. Robotics: Science and Systems Workshop — Towards Closing the Loop: Active Learning for Robotics.

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(2010). Multiple myeloma may include microvessel endothelial cells of malignant origin. Leukemia & lymphoma.

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(2009). Genetic Abnormalities in Waldenström's Macroglobulinemia. Clinical Lymphoma and Myeloma.

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(2009). Computational analysis of mitochondrial placement and aggregation effects on wide-angle cell scattering patterns. Biomedical Applications of Light Scattering III.

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(2008). Rapid simulation of wide-angle scattering from mitochondria in single cells. Optics express.

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(2008). Multiple myeloma includes phenotypically defined subsets of clonotypic CD20+ B cells that persist during treatment with rituximab. Clinical Medicine. Oncology.

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(2008). Inherited and acquired variations in the hyaluronan synthase 1 (HAS1) gene may contribute to disease progression in multiple myeloma and Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia. Blood.

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(2007). Gerraline and somatic mutations in the hyaluronan synthase-1 (HAS1) gene may contribute to oncogenesis in multiple myeloma (MM) and Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (WM). BLOOD.

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(2007). Germline and Somatic Mutations in the Hyaluronan Synthase-1 (HAS1) Gene May Contribute to Oncogenesis in Multiple Myeloma (MM) and Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia (WM). Blood.

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(2007). FISH and chips: chromosomal analysis on microfluidic platforms. IET nanobiotechnology.

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(2007). Computer vision for fish screening in myeloma. HAEMATOLOGICA-THE HEMATOLOGY JOURNAL.

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(2006). Small volume PCR in PDMS biochips with integrated fluid control and vapour barrier. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical.

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(2006). FISH and Chips: Novel, Point of Care Technology To Detect Chromosomal Abnormalities.. Blood.

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(2006). Accumulation of Inherited and Acquired Mutations in Hyaluronan Synthase1 Gene May Contribute Oncogenesis in Multiple Myeloma and Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia.. Blood.

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(2006). A method for cytometric image parameterization. Optics Express.

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(2005). Hyaluronan synthases and RHAMM as synergistic mediators of malignancy in B lineage cancers. Hyaluronan: Structure, Metabolism, Biological Activities, Therapeutic Applications.

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(2005). An adaptable microvalving system for on-chip polymerase chain reactions. Journal of Immunological Methods.

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(2005). A swarm-based system for object recognition. Neural Network World.

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(2004). The malignant hierarchy in multiple myeloma: Relationships between malignant cells and bone disease. Bone Metastasis and Molecular Mechanisms: Pathophysiology.

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(2004). Improved diagnosis and monitoring of cancer using portable microfluidics platforms. 2004 International Conference on MEMS, NANO and Smart Systems (ICMENS'04).

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(2003). Microsystems and cancer: Improved detection of disease related genes in myeloma patients using microfluidics platforms.. Blood.

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