An engineer enroute to AGI scientist

Paritosh Goyal

I am pursuing a Masters in Computing Science at the University of Alberta and Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, advised by Osmar Zaiane. I am interested in fundamental research in Reinforcement Learning and it's applications to Dialog Systems. I did Bachelor of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur where I did major in Instrumentation Engineering and minor in Embedded Wireless Systems. I worked for Hewlett Packard Enterprise as a Systems Software Engineer for an year between my undergrad and masters. In addition to my research interests below, I love to read, swim, travel, hiking mountains, try and prepare different cuisines.

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Research

Summary

I'm interested in the subjects of and the interplay between Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, and their applications. Some of my specific interests are:

  • RL for Dialogue Systems
  • Policy gradient methods for control
  • Off Policy control and prediction
  • Credit Assignment in continuous control and episodic tasks