Ph.D. Graduate Student
Expressive Intelligence Studio
UC Santa Cruz
mleece () soe.ucsc.edu
Department of Computer Science
University of California Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
I am a third year Ph.D. student at UC Santa Cruz, working with Professor Arnav Jhala in the Expressive Intelligence Studio. I am working on advancing to my Ph.D. candidacy, where I plan to focus on learning hierarchical task networks from unlabeled observations in complex, noisy domains (in particular, I plan to use StarCraft:BroodWar replays as action traces and attempt to learn players' intermediate goal structures). I received my Bachelor's in Computer Science from Harvey Mudd College in 2011.
Outside of school, I enjoy reading, climbing, and backpacking. I'm an admitted SciFi and Fantasy geek, which is what most of my for-fun reading library consists of. I love backpacking, and take a trip with my family to the Sierra Nevadas at least once a year. Getting away from civilization can be amazingly refreshing. Some other hobbies that I enjoy and make time for are ping pong, soccer, playing piano, and board games.