Eric Squires
Senior Research Engineer at Georgia Tech Research Institute
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Squires is a Senior Research Engineer and machine learning researcher with 11 years of experience, blending academic rigor from a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering with practical work in investment management and quantitative analysis. Based at Georgia Tech Research Institute, he has led DARPA- and AFRL-funded projects applying reinforcement learning to multi-agent systems and autonomous aerial combat, and authored tools like rlgear and the multi-agent simulator SCRIMMAGE to accelerate RL experimentation. His background in finance and systems-level engineering informs a pragmatic approach to robustness and out-of-sample performance, exemplified by a novel algorithm for image-based RL agents. A roboticist at heart, he focuses on controls and reinforcement learning for aerial vehicles and contributes to open-source projects, including backend improvements to the popular Neorg productivity tool. Colleagues describe him as someone who bridges research and production—turning provocative academic ideas into usable simulation and tooling that speed real-world evaluation.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBBA, Finance, Philosophy, BBA, Finance, Philosophy at Emory University - Goizueta Business School
Github Skills (6)
neovim10
lua10
back-end-development10
org-mode10
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nvim-neorg/neorg
Dec 2021 - Apr 2022
Modernity meets insane extensibility. The future of organizing your life in Neovim.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 41 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Neorg project, specifically within the GTD (Getting Things Done) module. Their work involved refactoring and extending core functions, such as `get_tag`, `insert`, and percentage calculations, by moving them into public functions. They also worked on completion features for Neorg, added a callback function for completions, and fixed a bug regarding nil queries.
luavimorg-modeneovimmeets
esquires/vim-map-medley
Jan 2015 - Nov 2024
Contributions:34 pushes in 9 years 11 months
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