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  • NeurIPS Learn to Move Competition

    Over the past four months I took part in the Learn to Move: Walk Around challenge, one of the challenges among the NeurIPS 2019 Competitions Tracks. The goal of the competition is to develop human-level versatile locomotion controllers, a grand challenge in biomechanics, neuroscience, and robotics; this year specifically, the...
  • Machine learning sabbatical

    At the start of 2018 I decided to pause work and take a sabbatical to study machine learning. I kept seeing ML algorithms generalize better and better across problems in different domains. This has made for an exciting progress in many fields, which also infected me. There is something magical...