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Martha White

Reinforcement Learning Continual Learning Algorithms Sustainable Machine Learning Systems
University of Alberta Department of Computer Science

About

Martha White is an Associate Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta and a Fellow of Amii, which is one of the top machine learning centres in the world. She holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Reinforcement Learning, received IEEE’s “AIs 10 to Watch: The Future of AI” award in 2020 and was inducted into the College of New Scholars by the Royal Society of Canada in 2024. She has authored more than 80 papers in top journals and conferences. Martha is an associate editor for JMLR and TMLR, has served as co-program chair for ICLR and for RLC and regularly serves as an area chair for top AI conferences. Her research focus is on developing algorithms that learn to adapt continually, with a focus on more sustainable systems.

Research Performance Summary

133
Total Papers
5868
Total Citations
38
H-Index
2009-2025
Active Research Span

First Recorded Paper

Optimal reverse prediction: a unified perspective on supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised learning

Year: 2009

Citations: 34

Venue: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Machine Learning

Latest Recorded Paper

Machine Learning II

Year: 2025

Citations: 0

Venue: N/A

Last 10 Years Publication Activity

This timeline shows the professor's yearly publication activity.

2025
12
2024
19
2023
10
2022
10
2021
12
2020
16
2019
9
2018
15
2017
6
2016
9
2015
4

Publication Venues and Collaboration

Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown

Conference 46
Journal 17
Book 2

Top Coauthors

White Pan Schlegel

Research Impact by Period

2025-2026

Period Stats
Papers 12
Citations 60
Avg. Citations / Paper 5
H-Index 4

2020-2024

Period Stats
Papers 67
Citations 1858
Avg. Citations / Paper 27.7
H-Index 20

2015-2019

Period Stats
Papers 43
Citations 2745
Avg. Citations / Paper 63.8
H-Index 23

2010-2014

Period Stats
Papers 9
Citations 1150
Avg. Citations / Paper 127.8
H-Index 7

2005-2009

Period Stats
Papers 2
Citations 55
Avg. Citations / Paper 27.5
H-Index 2

Contact and Professional Links

Contact Information

whitem@ualberta.ca

Detected Research Keywords

Temporal Difference Learning Offline Reinforcement Learning Off Policy Actor Policy Actor Critic Representations Reinforcement Learning Dyna Style Planning Real Time Recurrent Time Recurrent Learning Reinforcement Learning Tsallis Learning Sparse Representations