Thursday 4 December 2025 10:00-14:30,
Kjølv Egelands hus,
KE E-164.
Philosophiae Doctor Disputation – Faculty of Science and Technology.
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Thursday 4th December 2025, Peyman Kor will defend his PhD thesis at the University of Stavanger, Kjølv Egelands House, room E-164.
- 10:00: Trial lecture: Reinforcement Learning with Human in the Loop: Current Applications and Future Research Outlook
- 12:15: Disputation: A Decision Analytic Approach to Sequential Decision Making using Reinforcement Learning and Bayesian Optimization
Both the disputation and trial lecture are open to all interested.
Assessment Committee:
- Spyros Zoumpoulis, Associate Professor, INSEAD (Europe Campus), France
- Ashkan Jahanbani Ghahfarokhi, Associate Professor, NTNU
- Dan Sui, Professor, University of Stavanger
Supervisors:
- Main supervisor: Reidar Brumer Bratvold, Professor, University of Stavanger
- Co-supervisor: Aojie Hong, Associate Professor, University of Stavanger/Equinor
Chair of the defense is Carita Augustsson, Professor at Department of Energy and Petroleum Engineering, University of Stavanger.
Join the disputation in Teams
Meeting ID: 348 661 489 315 9
Password: UJ2Qj2JV