Daniel Lawson
PHD Student at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Lawson is a PhD student and researcher focused on machine learning, reinforcement learning, and robotics, currently affiliated with Mila after completing BS degrees in Computer Science and Data Science and ongoing graduate work at Purdue. With eight years of hands-on experience spanning academic research at Purdue’s Cognitive Robot Autonomy & Learning Lab and industry internships at Sandia National Laboratories and Plasma, he bridges theoretical RL research with practical ML systems engineering. He has built and benchmarked production-oriented ML tooling—such as an XGBoost training/serving pipeline—and contributed to projects analyzing opponent strategies from play-data, highlighting an interest in adversarial and behavioral modeling. Based in Dallas, his ongoing web presence (danielblawson.github.io) surfaces research updates and implementations, reflecting a commitment to reproducible, publishable work. Notably, he seeks PhD positions and research-focused internships or roles that combine robotics and RL with scalable model deployment.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Purdue UniversityGreenhill School
Github Skills (22)
git9
kubernetes9
github9
python9
patch7
datasets6
robotics6
react5
firebase5
subversion5
gymnasium5
javascript4
reinforcement-learning4
deep-reinforcement-learning3
monte-carlo3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
daniellawson9999/viridian-website
Jul 2018 - Sep 2020
ftc team 9054 viridian robotics' website
Contributions:3 PRs, 43 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
roboticsftc
daniellawson9999/Capstone_Python
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:88 commits, 78 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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