Nicholas Corrado
Graduate Research Assistant
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Corrado is a PhD student and graduate research assistant at UW–Madison with nine years of experience applying reinforcement learning to real-world robotics and power-systems problems. His research focuses on making RL more data-efficient through adaptive action selection and data augmentation, and he has translated those methods into physical-robotics experiments and Sandia consulting projects. He previously built query execution and storage components for Hustle (an Apache Arrow-based data platform) and designed a robust Lookahead Information Passing variant for dynamic data environments. Nicholas has interned at Amazon on multi-objective LLM alignment and earned recognition at Sandia for impactful contributions to RL projects. Trained in physics, mathematics, and computer science, he blends rigorous modeling instincts from particle-physics experiments with practical systems engineering. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves quickly from theoretical insight to reproducible, production-minded implementations.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Mount Lebanon High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Philosophy (BPhil), Physics, Bachelor of Philosophy (BPhil), Physics at University of Pittsburgh
English
Github Skills (19)
database5
high-performance5
dataframes5
in-memory5
robotics5
python4
physics4
pybullet4
deep-learning3
physics-engine3
reinforcement-learning3
artificial-intelligence3
machine-learning3
big-data3
in-memory-database3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
NicholasCorrado/PPOROS
Feb 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:18 PRs, 267 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years
pitt1321/Nicholas-Sean-Rocket-Launch
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:33 PRs, 51 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
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