Matthew Hausknecht

Principal Researcher, DataRobot

Joined

September 2017

Names

Matthew Hausknecht

Matthew J. Hausknecht

Emails

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****@microsoft.com (Confirmed)

****@datarobot.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

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Career & Education History

Principal Researcher

DataRobot (datarobot.com)

2025 – Present

Researcher

Latitude AI (latitude.ai)

2022 – 2025

Researcher

Microsoft Research (microsoft.com)

2017 – 2022

PhD student

University of Texas, Austin (utexas.edu)

2009 – 2016

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Peter Stone

2009 – 2016

Expertise

Deep Learning

2012 – 2017

Reinforcement Learning

2009 – 2017

Publications

syftr: Pareto-Optimal Generative AI
Alexander Conway, Debadeepta Dey, Stefan Hackmann, Matthew Hausknecht, Michael Douglas Schmidt, Mark Lewis Steadman, Nick Volynets
- AutoML 2025 Methods Track
- Readers: Everyone
MoCapAct: A Multi-Task Dataset for Simulated Humanoid Control
Nolan Wagener, Andrey Kolobov, Felipe Vieira Frujeri, Ricky Loynd, Ching-An Cheng, Matthew Hausknecht
- Published: 17 Sept 2022, Last Modified: 08 Feb 2026
- NeurIPS 2022 Datasets and Benchmarks
- Readers: Everyone
Uni[MASK]: Unified Inference in Sequential Decision Problems
Micah Carroll, Orr Paradise, Jessy Lin, Raluca Georgescu, Mingfei Sun, David Bignell, Stephanie Milani, Katja Hofmann, Matthew Hausknecht, Anca Dragan, Sam Devlin
- Published: 31 Oct 2022, Last Modified: 12 Jan 2023
- NeurIPS 2022 Accept
- Readers: Everyone
Towards Flexible Inference in Sequential Decision Problems via Bidirectional Transformers
Micah Carroll, Jessy Lin, Orr Paradise, Raluca Georgescu, Mingfei Sun, David Bignell, Stephanie Milani, Katja Hofmann, Matthew Hausknecht, Anca Dragan, Sam Devlin
- Published: 27 Apr 2022, Last Modified: 14 Jan 2026
- ICLR 2022 GPL Poster
- Readers: Everyone
How to Avoid Being Eaten by a Grue: Structured Exploration Strategies for Textual Worlds
Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Ethan Tien, Matthew Hausknecht, Mark Riedl
- 28 Sept 2020 (modified: 12 Oct 2025)
- ICLR 2021 Conference Blind Submission
- Readers: Everyone
ALFWorld: Aligning Text and Embodied Environments for Interactive Learning
Mohit Shridhar, Xingdi Yuan, Marc-Alexandre Cote, Yonatan Bisk, Adam Trischler, Matthew Hausknecht
- Published: 12 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 12 Oct 2025
- ICLR 2021 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
TextWorld: A Learning Environment for Text-Based Games
Marc-Alexandre Côté, Ákos Kádár, Xingdi Yuan, Ben Kybartas, Tavian Barnes, Emery Fine, James Moore, Matthew J. Hausknecht, Layla El Asri, Mahmoud Adada, Wendy Tay, Adam Trischler
- 2018 (modified: 10 Nov 2022)
- CGW@IJCAI 2018
- Readers: Everyone
Revisiting the Arcade Learning Environment: Evaluation Protocols and Open Problems for General Agents (Extended Abstract)
Marlos C. Machado, Marc G. Bellemare, E. Talvitie, Joel Veness, Matthew J. Hausknecht, Michael Bowling
- 2018 (modified: 10 Nov 2022)
- IJCAI 2018
- Readers: Everyone
Neural Program Meta-Induction
Jacob Devlin, Rudy R. Bunel, Rishabh Singh, Matthew J. Hausknecht, Pushmeet Kohli
- 2017 (modified: 11 Nov 2022)
- NIPS 2017
- Readers: Everyone
The Impact of Determinism on Learning Atari 2600 Games
Matthew J. Hausknecht, Peter Stone
- 2015 (modified: 16 Jul 2019)
- AAAI Workshop: Learning for General Competency in Video Games 2015
- Readers: Everyone

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