Nadia M. Ady

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Computer Science

My current research interests are in artificial intelligence, specifically in the possibilities for imbuing machines with traits of creativity and curiosity. In particular, my recent work has been towards better understanding the landscape of intrinsically motivated learning algorithms and to achieving the benefits of specific curiosity for machine learners.

Full researcher profile

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nadia.ady@aalto.fi

Areas of expertise

Curiosity, Reinforcement learning

Research groups

Professorship Guckelsberger Christian, Postdoctoral Researcher

Publications

Advancing Self-Determination Theory via computational modelling: the case of competence and optimal challenge

Sebastian Deterding, Christian Guckelsberger, Erik Lintunen, Nadia Ady 2025 Motivation and Emotion

Towards a Formal Specification of the Need for Competence

Erik Lintunen, Nadia Ady, Sebastian Deterding, Christian Guckelsberger 2025

Towards a Formal Theory of the Need for Competence via Computational Intrinsic Motivation

Erik M. Lintunen, Nadia M. Ady, Sebastian Deterding, Christian Guckelsberger 2025 Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

What To Practise Next? Using Diversity Progress To Select From Discriminability-Motivated Goals

Erik Lintunen, Nadia Ady, Christian Guckelsberger 2025

Why Self-Determination Theory Needs Formal Modelling: The Case of Competence and Balanced Challenge

Sebastian Deterding, Erik Matias Lintunen, Christian Guckelsberger, Nadia M. Ady 2024

WAVE : Anticipatory Movement Visualization for VR Dancing

Markus Laattala, Roosa Piitulainen, Nadia Ady, Monica Tamariz, Perttu Hämäläinen 2024 CHI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Creativity and Markov Decision Processes

Joonas Lahikainen, Nadia M. Ady, Christian Guckelsberger 2024 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2024)

Diversity Progress for Goal Selection in Discriminability-Motivated RL

Erik Lintunen, Nadia Ady, Christian Guckelsberger 2024

Interdisciplinary Methods in Computational Creativity: How Human Variables Shape Human-Inspired AI Research

Nadia M. Ady, Faun Rice 2023 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’23)

Five Properties of Specific Curiosity You Didn't Know Curious Machines Should Have

Nadia M. Ady, Roshan Shariff, Johannes Günther, Patrick M. Pilarski 2022 arXiv.org