Hello
My name is Ash, and I recently graduated from UC Santa Cruz, studying both Robotics Engineering and Cognitive Science.
I'm very passionate about creating new techniques to design artificial intelligence for controlling robots. I believe reinforcement learning and fields closely related have the potential to benefit humanity in ways we can't fathom yet.
Through my undergraduate career, I've worked for over 3 years in DANSER Lab, working on projects including:
- a soft robotic exosuit
- a soft, biologically-inspired manipulator(reinforcement and PID control)
- analysis of learning in cortical organoids(mini brains grown from stem cells)
- and many more
Future Work
Areas I'm interested in pursuing:
- Adaptive reinforcment learning to modulate assistance for exosuits
- Online learning of forward dynamic models for robots(adjusting to "injuries")
- Exploring integration of multiple sensing modalities for accuracy in reinforcement learning
- Robotic video-to-task demonstration
- Semantic understanding of words to aid in hierarchical learning
- Dynamic internal states(emotional states?)