Lanier Lanier
Research Scientist at UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLanier Lanier is a research scientist and PhD candidate in computer science at UC Irvine with a decade of experience applying machine learning to robotics, game AI, and human-computer interaction. Currently at Riot Games, Lanier focuses on reinforcement learning for game intelligence while maintaining an active research profile visible on Google Scholar. Prior internships at OffWorld and research roles at UCSB’s Four Eyes Lab reflect a hands-on background in robotics, AR, and audio/sound design, giving him a multidisciplinary perspective on perception and interaction. He brings both academic rigor and product-minded engineering to bridge novel algorithms and real-world systems, and his career path shows a consistent pattern of turning exploratory research into applied solutions.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at UC Santa BarbaraUniversity of California, Irvine
German
Github Skills (38)
approximate10
markov-decision-processes10
reinforcement-learning9
python9
machine-learning9
pipeline9
deep-learning9
monte-carlo-tree-search9
scalable9
planning9
open-access9
cpp8
q-learning8
tensorflow8
pytorch8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
indylab/nxdo
Nov 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:112 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
JBLanier/Darknet-Yolo-Client-for-HoloLens
Mar 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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