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Dan Lizotte, Ph.D.
Research Fellow, The Quantitative Methodology Program

Address:
Survey Research Center
University of Michigan
2067 ISR
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1248


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Telephone:
734-615-4607
Fax: 734-763-1428

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Education:
Ph.D., The University of Alberta, 2008 (Computing Science)
M.Sc., The University of Alberta, 2003 (Computing Science)
B.C.S., The University of New Brunswick, 2001 (Computing Science)

Research Interests:
Adaptive Treatment Strategies including efficient and stable learning of treatment strategies, and computation and presentation of measures of confidence in learned strategies.

Methodology Center Research Areas:
Adaptive Treatment Strategies

Current Projects and Collaborators:
I work with Dr. Susan Murphy of The Institute for Social Research on the development and application of techniques for developing adaptive treatment strategies from data. We are currently examining data from the Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression (STAR*D) study and are working in collaboration with psychiatrists to develop useful tools for exploring how the data can inform future clinical practice and scientific investigation.

Honors and Awards:
  • Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship 2005–2007
  • Ralph Steinhauer Award of Distinction 2005
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Post Graduate Scholarship B 2003–2005
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Post Graduate Scholarship A 2001–2003

Publications:
Peer-reviewed Papers

Lizotte, D., Gunter, L., Laber, E., & Murphy, S.A. Missing Data and Uncertainty in Batch Reinforcement Learning. Selected for a poster presentation at the NIPS-08 Workshop on Model Uncertainty and Risk in Reinforcement Learning.

 

Lizotte, D., Wang, T., Bowling, M., & Schuurmans, D. (2007). Automatic gait optimization with Gaussian process regression. Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

 

Wang, T., Lizotte, D., Bowling, M., & Schuurmans, D. (2007). Stable dual dynamic programming. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems.

 

Wang, Q., Cherry, C., Lizotte, D., & Schuurmans, D. (2006). Improved large margin dependency parsing via local constraints and Laplacian regularization. Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning 06:21-28.

 

Wang, T., Lizotte, D., Bowling, M., & Schuurmans, D. (2005). Bayesian sparse sampling for on-line reward optimization. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Machine Learning, 961-968.

 

Madani, O., Lizotte, D., & Greiner, R. (2004). Active model selection. Proceedings of the 20th conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence.

 

Lizotte, D., Madani, O., & Greiner, R. (2003). Budgeted learning of naïve-Bayes classifiers. 19th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence.

 

Lizotte, D. & Zhang, H. (2003). Trading confidence for communications. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 1:935-940.

 

Lizotte, D., Garey, L., & Shaw, R. (2002). A parallel numerical algorithm for boundary-value FIDEs on a PC cluster. Proceedings of the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 397-402.

 

Shaw, R., Garey, L., & Lizotte, D. (2000). A parallel numerical algorithm for Fredholm integro-differential two-point boundary value problems. The International Journal of Computer Mathematics, 77:305-318.


Other Publications

Lizotte, D., Laber, E., & Murphy, S.A. Assessing Confidence in Policies Learned from Sequential Randomized Trials (Tech. Rep. No. 481). Department of Statistics, University of Michigan.

 
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