Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley
Given the dramatic successes in machine learning and reinforcement learning over the past half decade, there has been a resurgence of interest in applying these techniques to continuous control problems in robotics, self-driving cars, and unmanned aerial vehicles. Though such applications appear to be straightforward generalizations of standard reinforcement learning, …
When I was a naive undergraduate and disenchanted with the prospect of becoming a math professor, I enrolled in graduate school at MIT to work on computer music. My career as an electroacoustic scholar ended quickly but opened my eyes to the world of interactive sound art. In this talk, …
The arithmetic-geometric mean inequality states that the arithmetic mean of a set of positive numbers is always greater than the geometric mean unless all of the numbers are equal to one another. Does a similar inequality hold for positive definite matrices? The answer is not straightforward as positive definite matrices …