Research

• Discontinuous molecular dynamics simulation study of polymer collapse. Sheldon Opps, James M. Polson and Nick Abou Risk J. Chem. Phys. 2006, 125, 194904.
• Theoretical study of solvent effects on the coil-globule transition. James M. Polson, Sheldon B. Opps and Nicholas Abou Risk. J. Chem. Phys. 2009, 130, 244902.

Computer Poker Publications:

• Using Counterfactual Regret Minimization to Create a Competitive Multiplayer Poker Agent.  Nicholas Abou Risk.  M. Sc. Thesis. 2009.
• N. Abou Risk and D. Szafron, Using Counterfactual Regret Minimization to Create Competitive Multiplayer Poker Agents, Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2010), Toronto, Canada, May, 2010, 8 ms.

Masters Computer Science Supervisor:

• Dr. Duane Szafron

Research Groups:

• UPEI Computational Physics
• UofA Computer Poker Research Group (CPRG)

Competitions:

• Computer Poker Competition 2009: 3-player Limit Hold’em.  1st and 2nd place.
• Reinforcement Learning Competition 2009.  2nd place.  Partner: Richard Gibson.
• Man-Machine Poker Competition 2008.  1st place.  Team: UofA CPRG.
• Computer Poker Competition 2008: 6-player Limit Hold’em.  1st place.  Team: UofA CPRG.

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