Marek Petrik
Associate Professor
Durham, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolMarek Petrik is an Associate Professor at the University of New Hampshire with 12 years of experience bridging reinforcement learning, robust optimization, and operations research across academia and industry. His work spans theoretical research and applied solutions, from supply chain and agricultural analytics at IBM to a Visiting Faculty Researcher stint at Google. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UMass Amherst and has a background in logistics and software development, enabling him to translate complex ML and optimization ideas into practical systems. Known for combining rigorous theory with real-world impact, he often focuses on robustness in learning algorithms—a thread visible across his research and GitHub interests. Based in Durham, NH, he brings a rare blend of academic depth and industry-hardened problem solving to both research and teaching.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. (Mgr), Computer Science (Informatics), B.Sc. (Mgr), Computer Science (Informatics) at Univerzita Komenského v BratislavePhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstNone, Math, Physics, Informatics, None, Math, Physics, Informatics at Gymnazium Jura Hronca
English
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Github Skills (29)
markov-decision-processes10
science10
julia10
programming-language9
machine-learning9
hpc9
cpp9
cross-validation8
glmnet8
julialang8
numerical8
r7
git-mirror6
scientific-computing5
jekyll5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rlsquared/website
Jul 2017 - Sep 2023
Group Website
Contributions:3 PRs, 81 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
jekyllgroup-website
marekpetrik/marekpetrik.github.io
Oct 2015 - Jan 2026
Contributions:102 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 5 months
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