Musings of an Enlightened Idiot
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I read. I write. I build stuff.
I’m interested in building machines with human-like intelligence. My research lies in the overlapping areas of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics . I actively work on the design and development of Reinforcement Learning ( RL ) algorithms and continual learning systems for real-world robots. I also have a strong side interest in Neuroscience , Evolutionary Biology and Quantum Computing . All are part of an overarching goal to understand the emergence of intelligence.
I’m a PhD student in Statistical Machine Learning at the University of Alberta. I work under the supervision of Rupam Mahmood with the Reinforcement Learning and Artificial Intelligence ( RLAI ) Group. My PhD research focuses on autonomous skill acquisition on real-world robots from scratch. To achieve this, I mostly focus on policy gradient methods, real-time learning architectures and temporal abstraction in reinforcement learning.
Musings of an Enlightened Idiot