David Abel
Current Students
- Ben Sanati, PhD student, co-advised with Amos Storkey, Ignacio Carlucho, and Stefano Albrecht.
- Max Tamborski, Masters student, co-advised with Stefano Albrecht.
Other Recent Student Collaborators
- Samuel Garcin, UoE.
- Yue Guo, CMU.
- Hyunin Lee, UC Berkeley.
- Jee Won Park, Brown.
- Andi Peng, MIT, now at Anthropic.
- Nate Rahn, Mila.
Prospective Students
If you are a student at the University of Edinburgh and would like to work together in any capacity---please send me an email at david.abel@ed.ac.uk.
Otherwise: I will soon be looking to recruit a small number of PhD students at the University of Edinburgh in Informatics. Stay tuned!
Resources for Students
1. On The Research Process
Books
- You and Your Research by Hamming.
- How To Choose a Good Scientific Problem by Alon.
- How to Read a Paper by Keshav.
- Writing a Technical Paper by Tellex.
- Writing Proofs: Proof and the Art of Mathematics by Hamkins.
- Editorial comments by Littman.
- Presentation Advice by Freuder.
Books
- Finite and Infinite Games by Carse
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Hofstadter
- The Evolution of Agency by Tomasello.
- The Origin of Concepts by Carey
- The Myth of the Objective by Stanley and Lehman.
- Games: Agency as Art by Nguyen.
- The Scientist in the Crib by Gopnik, Meltzoff, and Kuhl.
- The Intentional Stance by Dennett.
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Kuhn.
- What the Tortoise Said to Achilles by Carroll
- More is Different by Anderson
- What is an Agent? by Harutyunyan
- A Theory of the Learnable by Valiant
- Two Dogmas of Empiricism by Quine.
- The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by LeGuin
- The Last Question by Azimov.