At Georgia Tech I am an associate professor in Interactive Computing. My research has primarily focused on autonomous robots, social animals and multi-robot teams but I am now exploring the use of Machine Learning in trading. I teach courses in computing, primarily about robotics and perception. I co-direct the BORG Lab with Frank Dellaert. My research is funded by DARPA, Microsoft, NSF ONR, and the Naval Surface Warfare Center.

News

• I'm teaching CS8803-FIN Machine Learning for Trading in Spring 2010.
• Building an open source toolkit for portfolio managers.
• I will teach CS4632/7631 in Fall 2010.
• Recently received NSF CCLI funding for research regarding robots in CS education. Working with Dan Walker, Mark Guzdial and Jay Summet at GT, Keith O'Hara at Bard, and Doug Blank and Deepak Kumar at Bryn Mawr.
• Continuing research with honey bees. Look at ourobservation hive in CCB login: beeguest/guest123 . It is often black if no one is there.

Short Biography

Tucker Balch is an associate professor in the School of Interactive and Intelligent Computing at Georgia Tech. He completed his Ph.D. at Georgia Tech in 1998. Balch was a postdoctoral fellow for one year, then a member of the research faculty at Carnegie Mellon for two years before he returned to Georgia Tech in 2001. He now directs the BORG Lab at Georgia Tech with Frank Dellaert. His research interests include collaboration and communication in multi-robot teams, and activity recognition and modeling in live social agent systems. Professor Balch has published over 70 research articles and edited two books, including Robot Teams with Lynne Parker. He likes boiled peanuts, is an NSF CAREER Award recipient and a former F-15 pilot. He has three children with his wife Maria.