Matthew Aitchison
Member Of Technical Staff at Mantic
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Aitchison is an AI research engineer and software builder with a decade of experience applying reinforcement learning and transformer architectures to vision and online-learning problems, armed with a PhD in RL from ANU and top-tier mathematics and CS training. He contributed to autonomy evaluations and novel online transformer work at DeepMind, lectured in computer graphics, and delivered a commercial thermal-vision animal tracking system during an earlier internship. Equally at home in theory and low-level engineering, he spent a sabbatical hand-crafting software for a Pentium MMX—writing drivers and reimplementing core tooling—which speaks to a rare appetite for systems-level craftsmanship. Now at Mantic, he blends rigorous research instincts with pragmatic shipping skills and an appetite for building infrastructure that makes AI safer and more useful.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Maths and Computer Science, GPA 6.76/7, Bachelor’s Degree, Maths and Computer Science, GPA 6.76/7 at University of CanterburyCashmere High
English, Chinese
Github Skills (40)
c5110
gomoku10
gymnasium10
sac10
single-file10
reinforcement-learning10
dqn10
wandb10
ddpg10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
actor-critic10
exports10
q-learning10
server10
monte-carlo-tree-search10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
maitchison/RTG
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:273 commits, 230 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
maitchison/PPO
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Example implemention of the Proximal Policy Optimization algorithm
Contributions:532 commits, 434 pushes, 13 branches in 3 years 3 months
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