Aijun Bai -

Research Engineer
Google
aijunbai (at) google . com

Experience

Google, Mountain View, CA, United States, 2022.5 - present
Research Engineer at Google, working on NLU, LTR, etc.
Microsoft, Sunnyvale, CA, United States, 2018.10 - 2022.5
Applied Scientist in Experiences & Devices, working on Bing core search & AI
Microsoft, Redmond, WA, United States, 2017.5 - 2018.10
Researcher in Cloud & AI, working on congnition intelligence
University of California at Berkeley, EECS, Berkeley, CA, United States, 2015.4 - 2017.5
Postdoctoral Researcher in BAIR, working on hierarchical decision-making and reinforcement learning with Prof. Stuart Russell
Carnegie Mellon University, CSD, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, 2013.12 - 2015.3
Visiting Research Scholar in CORAL, working on human-robot interaction and multi-object tracking with Prof. Manuela Veloso and Prof. Reid Simmions
University of Science and Technology of China, CSD, Hefei, Anhui, China, 2009.9 - 2014.11
Research Assistant in WrightEagle, working on hierarchical online planning for Markov decision processes with Prof. Xiaoping Chen

Education

University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, 2009.9 - 2014.11
Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, 2005.9 - 2009.7
Bachelor in Computer Science

Publications

Posterior Sampling for Monte Carlo Planning under Uncertainty, Aijun Bai, Feng Wu, and Xiaoping Chen,
Applied Intelligence, 2018. [pdf] [bib]
Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Hierarchies of Machines by Leveraging Internal Transitions, Aijun Bai, and Stuart Russell,
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Melbourne, Australia, August 19 - 25, 2017. [pdf] [bib] [video]
Multi-Object Tracking and Identification via Particle Filtering over Sets, Aijun Bai, Reid Simmons, and Manuela Veloso,
Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Xi’an, China, July 10-13, 2017. [pdf] [bib] [video]
Concurrent Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for RoboCup Keepaway, Aijun Bai, Stuart Russell, and Xiaoping Chen,
RoboCup-2017: Robot Soccer World Cup XX, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (RoboCup), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2017. [pdf] [bib] [video]
RoboCup 2D Soccer Simulation League: Evaluation Challenges, Mikhail Prokopenko, Peter Wang, Sebastian Marian, Aijun Bai, Xiao Li and Xiaoping Chen,
RoboCup-2017: Robot Soccer World Cup XX, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (RoboCup), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2017. [pdf] [bib]
Speeding Up HAM Learning with Internal Transitions, Aijun Bai, and Stuart Russell,
The Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM) 2017, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, June 11-14, 2017. [pdf] [bib] [video]
Markovian State and Action Abstractions for MDPs via Hierarchical MCTS, Aijun Bai, Siddharth Srivastava, and Stuart Russell,
Proceedings of the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), New York, 2016. [pdf] [bib]
Online Planning for Large Markov Decision Processes with Hierarchical Decomposition, Aijun Bai, Feng Wu, and Xiaoping Chen,
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST),6(4):45:1–45:28, July 2015. [pdf] [appendix] [bib]
PLEASE: Palm Leaf Search for POMDPs with Large Observation Spaces, Zongzhang Zhang, David Hsu, Wee Sun Lee, Zhan Wei Lim, and Aijun Bai,
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2015. [pdf] [bib]
PLEASE: Palm Leaf Search for POMDPs with Large Observation Spaces, Zongzhang Zhang, David Hsu, Wee Sun Lee, Zhan Wei Lim, and Aijun Bai,
Proceedings of the 8th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS), 2015. [pdf] [bib]
Intention-Aware Multi-Human Tracking for Human-Robot Interaction via Particle Filtering over Sets, Aijun Bai, Reid Simmons, Manuela Veloso, and Xiaoping Chen,
AAAI 2014 Fall Symposium: AI for Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI), Arlington, Virginia, United States, November 2014. [pdf] [bib]
Thompson Sampling based Monte-Carlo Planning in POMDPs, Aijun Bai, Feng Wu, Zongzhang Zhang, and Xiaoping Chen,
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States, June 2014. [pdf] [bib]
Bayesian Mixture Modelling and Inference based Thompson Sampling in Monte-Carlo Tree Search, Aijun Bai, Feng Wu, and Xiaoping Chen,
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 26 (NIPS), Lake Tahoe, Nevada, United States, December 2013. [pdf] [bib]
An Intelligent Service System with Multiple Robots, Qiang Lu, Guanghui Lu, Aijun Bai, Dongxiang Zhang, and Xiaoping Chen,
Robot Competition of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Beijing, China, 2013. [pdf] [bib]
Towards a Principled Solution to Simulated Robot Soccer, Aijun Bai, Feng Wu, and Xiaoping Chen,
RoboCup-2012: Robot Soccer World Cup XVI, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (RoboCup), Vol. 7500, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2013. [pdf] [bib] Best Paper Award Nominee at RoboCup 2012 International Symposium.
Online Planning for Large MDPs with MAXQ Decomposition (Extended Abstract), Aijun Bai, Feng Wu, and Xiaoping Chen,
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Valencia, Spain, June 2012. [pdf] [bib]
Online Planning for Large MDPs with MAXQ Decomposition, Aijun Bai, Feng Wu, and Xiaoping Chen,
AAMAS 2012 Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems Workshop (ARMS), Valencia, Spain, June 2012. [pdf] [bib]
WrightEagle and UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2011 Simulation League Champions, Aijun Bai, Xiaoping Chen, Patrick MacAlpine, Daniel Urieli, Samuel Barrett, and Peter Stone,
RoboCup-2011: Robot Soccer World Cup XV, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (RoboCup), Vol. 7416, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2012. [pdf] [bib]

Honors and Awards

World Champion of RoboCup Soccer Simulation 2D Competition, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Jul 2013. [RoboCup 2013] [video]
World Champion of RoboCup Soccer Simulation 2D Competition, Istanbul, Turkey, Jul 2011. [RoboCup 2011] [video]
World Champion of RoboCup Soccer Simulation 2D Competition, Graz, Austria, Jun 2009. [RoboCup 2009]

Scholarships

Early Researcher Support of ICAPS, 2014.
Travel Award of NIPS Foundation, 2013.