Amy Hoover
Assistant Professor, Informatics
3801 Guttenberg Information Technologies Center (GITC)
Education
M.S. ; University of Central Florida ; Computer Science ; 2014

Ph.D. ; University of Central Florida ; Computer Science ; 2014

B.S. ; University of Central Florida ; Computer Science ; 2009

B.S. ; University of Central Florida ; Mathematics ; 2009

Past Courses
CS 474: INTRODUCTION TO GENERATIVE AI

CS 485: SELECTED TOPICS IN CS

CS 485: ST: INTRODUCTION TO GENERATIVE AI

CS 485: ST: INTRODUCTION TO GENERATIVE AI- HONORS

IS 485: SPECIAL TOPICS IN IS - I

IS 665: DATA ANALYTICS FOR INFO SYSTEM

IS 698: SPECIAL TOPICS IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS

IT 114: ADVANCED PROGRAMMING FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

IT 485: ST: APPLICATIONS OF AI FOR GAMES

IT 485: ST: CREATIVE AI

IT 485: ST: DEEP LEARNING FOR GAMES

Patents
Generating Flower Images and Shapes with Compositional Pattern Producing Networks

Journal Article
Elliot Meyerson, Mark J. Nelson, Herbie Bradley, Adam Gaier, Arash Moradi, Amy K. Hoover, Joel Lehman. 2024. "Language Model Crossover: Variation through Few-Shot Prompting." ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization , vol. 4 , no. 4 , pp. 1-40.

Aaron Dharna, Amy K. Hoover, Julian Togelius, Lisa Soros. 2022. "Transfer Dynamics in Emergent Evolutionary Curricula." The IEEE Transactions on Games .

Matthew C. Fontaine, Ruilin Liu, Ahmed Khalifa, Jignesh Modi, Julian Togelius, Amy K. Hoover, Stefanos Nikolaidis. 2021. "Illuminating Mario Scenes in the Latent Space of a Generative Adversarial Network." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence , vol. 35 , no. 7 , pp. 5922-5930.

Amy K. Hoover, Julian Togelius, Scott Lee, Fernando de Mesentier Silva. 2020. "The Many AI Challenges of Hearthstone." KI-K\"unstliche Intelligenz , vol. 34 , no. 1 , pp. 33--43.

Adam Summerville, Sam Snodgrass, Matthew Guzdial, Christoffer Holmg\aard, Amy K. Hoover, Aaron Isaksen, Andy Nealen, Julian Togelius. 2018. "Procedural Content Generation via Machine Learning (PCGML)." IEEE Transactions on Games , vol. 10 , no. 3 , pp. 257-270.

Amy K. Hoover, Paul A. Szerlip, Kenneth O. Stanley. 2014. "Functional Scaffolding for Composing Additional Musical Voices." Computer Music Journal , vol. 38 , no. 4 , pp. 80--99.

Amy K. Hoover, Kenneth O. Stanley. 2009. "Exploiting Functional Relationships in Musical Composition." Connection Science Special Issue on Music, Brain, \& Cognition , vol. 21 , no. 2 , pp. 227--251.

Conference Paper
"Resource-constrained knowledge diffusion processes inspired by human peer learning"
26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, September, 2023.

Conference Proceeding
"Deep Surrogate Assisted MAP-Elites for Automated Hearthstone Deckbuilding"
ACM, 2022.

"Covariance Matrix Adaptation for the Rapid Illumination of Behavior Space"
2020.

"Notes on Using Google Colaboratory in AI Education"
2020.

"Video Game Level Repair via Mixed Integer Linear Programming"
2020.

"Mapping Hearthstone Deck Spaces through MAP-Elites with Sliding Boundaries"
Association for Computing Machinery, 2019.

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Other
"DSA-ME: Deep Surrogate Assisted MAP-Elites"
OpenReview.net, 2022.

"Watts: Infrastructure for Open-Ended Learning"
OpenReview.net, 2022.

Chapter
Amy K. Hoover, William Cachia, Antonios Liapis, Georgios N. Yannakakis. "AudioInSpace: Exploring the Creative Fusion of Generative Audio, Visuals and Gameplay." "Lecture Notes in Computer Science," pp. 101-112. Springer International Publishing, 2015.