Chris Marriott, Ph.D.

Associate Teaching Professor
Engineering & Technology, School of
Email
cmarriot@uw.edu
Office
Cherry Parkes (CP) 123
Phone Number
253-692-4592
Campus Mailbox
358426

About

Degrees

Ph.D.
Computer Science and Philosophy
University of Calgary
2009
M.S.
Computer Science
University of Calgary
2004
B.S.
Computer Science
University of Calgary
2001
B.A.
Philosophy
University of Calgary
2001

Current Research

Postdoctoral Researcher, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico - 2011
Postdoctoral research in self-organizing systems.

Projects:

  • Polyethism and heterogeneity in artificial and natural colonies
  • Crowd dynamics in public transportation systems
  • Golem: Autonomous Robot

Teaching

  • TCSS 342 - Data Structures
  • TCSS 343 - Algorithms
  • TCSS 435 - Artificial intelligence
  • TCSS 491 - Computational Worlds

Academic Service

This year I have been an active member of the CSS curriculum committee, faculty meetings and subcommittees (CSS curriculum evaluation, workload).
I led five computer programming teams to the 2015­16 ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition regional qualifiers.

I served on the program committee of two conferences this year: IEEE GEM and ALIFE.

I am the chair of the International Society of Artificial Life’s education subcommittee.

CV / Resume
Marriott_CV.pdf
Selected Publications

Polyethism in a colony of artificial ants. (with Carlos Gershenson) ECAL’11. European Conference on Artificial Life, 2011.

Imitation as a mechanism of cultural transmission. (with James Parker and Jörg Denzinger) Artificial Life, 16(1): 21­37, 2010.

Quantum Arthur­Merlin Games. (with John Watrous) Computational Complexity, 14(2), 122­152, 2005.

Quantum Arthur­Merlin Games (preliminary version with John Watrous) CCC’04 Conference on Computational Complexity: 275­285, 2004.