Nathaniel Hamilton
Reinforcement Learning Engineer at University of Dayton Research Institute
Kent, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolNathaniel Hamilton is a reinforcement learning engineer and AI scientist with nine years of experience applying safe and robust ML to autonomous cyber-physical systems in air and space domains. He earned a PhD from Vanderbilt funded by an NDSEG Fellowship for research on safety and robustness in reinforcement learning and has continued that work at Parallax Advanced Research and the Air Force Research Lab. Nathaniel bridges theory and practice: he designs experiments, implements controllers, analyzes data, and turns results into proposals and publications. His background includes multiple internships focused on run-time assurance, opposition-based learning, and transfer in deep RL, signaling a knack for combining novel algorithms with safety guarantees. Based in Kent, Ohio, he now contributes to autonomy research at the University of Dayton Research Institute, bringing both defense-focused rigor and hands-on systems development to complex robotics problems.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.976, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.976 at Lipscomb University
English
Github Skills (11)
planning9
simulation8
reinforcement-learning7
computer-vision7
reachability6
verification5
react4
formal-verification3
formal-methods3
neural-network2
autonomy2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nphamilton/rl_library
Feb 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:65 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
nphamilton/nphamilton.github.io
Dec 2021 - Nov 2022
Making a github website about me
Contributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 11 months
reactabout-me-websitegithub-website
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