User:Imran

I'm Imran and this is my user page :)

Note: I am (as of Sept 04) curently inactive on Wikipedia

I'm currently a sysop on en. I was also election coordinator (along with Danny) for the Wikimedia board of trustee elections.

I can be reached at imran@bits.bris.ac.uk or via my Blog, I'm normally also around on #wikipedia.

For my image page see User:Imran/photos.

Apart from Wikipedia I can also often be found working on other open source content project, including the other Wikimedia projects, Distributed Proofreaders & Project Gutenberg.

My academic interests include:

• Computer Science - especially Cryptography and AI.
• Maths - Mainly Number Theory and Group Theory.

Other interests:

• Lexicography - especially "first uses" & etymology.
• Game History - Mainly that of Board Games and of English card games.

I'm not a professional, but when it comes to these two areas I'm probably the closest you're going to find on Wikipedia so feel free to ask me questions relating to these areas.

I am especially interested in the overlap between these areas. I've recently finished a project investigating the application of reinforcement learning (particularlly the temporal difference algorithm td-lambda) to train neural networks to play board games. An initial paper can be found here.