Matthias Plappert
Founder at Angel Investor
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolMatthias Plappert is a founder and research scientist based in Berlin with 15 years’ experience at the intersection of machine learning, robotics, reinforcement learning, and code synthesis. He contributed to high-impact projects at OpenAI (including work that powers GitHub Copilot) and led visible robotics research—most famously solving a Rubik’s cube with a humanoid robot hand featured in the New York Times. Matthias advises teams on high-stakes AI/ML decisions through dfdx labs, invests as an angel alongside his wife, and has held research roles at GitHub and OpenAI. His open-source contributions include improving core DQN implementations in the popular keras-rl repo, reflecting a blend of production-grade engineering and algorithmic depth.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
English, German, French
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Github Skills (12)
keras10
dqn10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
python10
reinforcement-learning10
optimization9
tensorflow9
optimisation9
algorithm9
algorithms9
iphone6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
keras-rl/keras-rl
Jul 2016 - Dec 2017
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Keras.
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:6 releases, 204 commits, 74 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Matthias's contributions primarily involve refactoring and improving the `rl/agents/dqn.py` file, which suggests a focus on enhancing the core functionality of the Deep Q-Network (DQN) agent. Their work includes refactoring policies, improving metric handling, refactoring memory, and adding support for features such as normalization and Huber loss. The user appears to be focused on the implementation and optimization of reinforcement learning algorithms.
deep-learningreinforcement-learningtheanoneural-networksmachine-learning
matthiasplappert/pibot
Jun 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:140 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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