Currently Working at Google Inc. in beautiful Santa Monica. Interests My research thesis deals with cooperative multi-agent learning. In particular, I am interested in evolutionary computation, reinforcement learning, and inter-agent communication. I have also done extensive work in the areas of genetic programming and concept learning. News I am currently working on organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful (at Google in sunny Santa Monica, CA). I co-organized the AAMAS 2007 Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Agents.. I successfully defended my PhD thesis on August 31st, 2006. I co-organized the AAMAS 2006 Workshop on Adaptation and Learning in Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.. I co-organized the 2005 AAAI Fall Symposium on Coevolution and Coadaptive Systems. President Computer Science Graduate Student Association Member Evolutionary Computation Laboratory     IEEE NNS Task Force on Coevolution Email lpanait at cs.gmu.edu