Joshua Evans
Lecturer at University of Bath
Bath, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJoshua Evans is a Lecturer and PhD researcher at the University of Bath with a decade of experience blending software engineering and systems thinking into cutting-edge reinforcement learning research. He specialises in skill discovery and hierarchical RL, teaching and redesigning postgraduate, undergraduate and scalable online units while supervising applied final-year projects. A First Class MComp graduate and recipient of the Bill Tutte Scholarship and BP Centurion award, he pairs strong theoretical rigour with practical programming across Python, Rust, C# and Java. Joshua has a track record of rebuilding course assessments and labs to scale teaching for growing cohorts—an indicator of his pragmatic approach to both research and education.
10 years of coding experience
A-Level, A-Level at St Benedict's Catholic Upper School & Sixth FormDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Bath
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Github Skills (13)
reinforcement-learning-environments9
reinforcement-learning9
openai-gym9
python8
algorithms6
testing6
minecraft5
graph5
sed3
sys2
javascript1
nodejs1
architecture1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Ueva/BaRL_Envs
Apr 2020 - Apr 2025
A collection of useful environments for testing Reinforcement Learning algorithms. Designed (mostly) with discrete, graph-based methods in mind.
Contributions:2 reviews, 63 PRs, 146 pushes in 5 years
graphreinforcement-learningtestingbarl-envsbarl-simpleoptions
Ueva/OfficeWorld
Mar 2023 - Aug 2024
A highly-customisable, procedurally-generated "office" environment for reinforcement learning.
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 4 months
reinforcement-learning
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