The Artificial Intelligence Research Collaboration (AIRC) is a joint venture between Rensselaer and IBM working to advance the science of artificial intelligence (AI) through a series of research projects. Tyler Malloy, who recently graduated from Rensselaer with a Ph.D. in cognitive science, was a member of the AIRC and focused his research on improving methods in an area of machine learning called reinforcement learning algorithms by integrating his expertise in human cognition.