I am a research scientist at Nuro, working to apply reinforcement learning in the exciting domain of autonomous vehicles.
Prior to this, I was a PhD student at Brown University, advised by George Konidaris. I primarily worked on developing better exploration methods for deep reinforcement learning, that helped agents learn without needing a dense supervisory signal. During Summer 2024 I interned with Sony AI, where I developed exploration algorithms for reinforcement learning agents in Playstation video games.
I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015, where I studied Physics, Math, and a little bit of Computer Science. Between then and graduate school I held a variety of jobs as a programmer (some odd, some real). During this time I also geared up for my Ph.D, most notably by doing research in the Lawrence Carin’s inviting research group at Duke.