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Josiah Hanna

Reinforcement Learning Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning Autonomous Agents Learning Autonomous Driving Systems
University of Wisconsin-Madison Computer Sciences

About

Josiah Hanna is an assistant professor in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin -- Madison. He received his Ph.D. in the Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to attending UT Austin, he completed his B.S. in computer science and mathematics at the University of Kentucky. Before joining UW--Madison, he was a post-doc at the University of Edinburgh and also spent time at FiveAI working on autonomous driving. Josiah is a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship. His research interests lie in artificial intelligence and machine learning, seeking to develop algorithms that allow autonomous agents to learn (efficiently) from experience. In particular, he studies reinforcement learning and methods to increase the data efficiency of reinforcement learning algorithms

Research Performance Summary

85
Total Papers
2486
Total Citations
24
H-Index
2012-2025
Active Research Span

First Recorded Paper

The academic advising planning domain

Year: 2012

Citations: 28

Venue: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on the International Planning Competition at

Latest Recorded Paper

RoboCup 2024: Robot World Cup XXVII

Year: 2025

Citations: 0

Venue: Springer Nature

Last 10 Years Publication Activity

This timeline shows the professor's yearly publication activity.

2025
8
2024
16
2023
9
2022
6
2021
9
2020
8
2019
6
2018
5
2017
8
2016
5
2015
2

Publication Venues and Collaboration

Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown

Conference 30
Journal 4
Book 3

Top Coauthors

Hanna Stone

Research Impact by Period

2025-2026

Period Stats
Papers 8
Citations 14
Avg. Citations / Paper 1.8
H-Index 3

2020-2024

Period Stats
Papers 48
Citations 654
Avg. Citations / Paper 13.6
H-Index 15

2015-2019

Period Stats
Papers 26
Citations 1757
Avg. Citations / Paper 67.6
H-Index 14

2010-2014

Period Stats
Papers 3
Citations 61
Avg. Citations / Paper 20.3
H-Index 2

Contact and Professional Links

Contact Information

jphanna@cs.wisc.edu

Detected Research Keywords

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