Raja Ali
Graduate Research Assistant
Manhattan, Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolRaja Ali is a PhD candidate and Graduate Research Assistant at Kansas State University specializing in multi-agent and generalizable reinforcement learning, with a research focus on reward induction, discounting, and safe autonomous behaviors. He co-leads the KDD lab's RL division and has supervised undergraduate teams on projects bridging theory and practical multi-agent systems. Prior to academia he spent over eight years as an embedded systems and avionics software engineer, contributing to mission- and safety-critical RTOS projects and hardware-software integration. Raja also has three years of teaching experience, designing course content and auto-graders for introductory and systems programming courses. Comfortable at the intersection of rigorous research and applied engineering, he combines hands-on systems background with a long-term interest in building interoperable, safe RL agents that can operate beyond single ecosystems.
5 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Kansas State UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer and Communication Security, Master of Science - MS, Computer and Communication Security at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
Github Skills (95)
parallel10
python10
toolbox10
gymnasium10
stable-baselines10
deep-learning10
box2d10
robustness10
ray10
optimization10
robotics10
mahjong10
wandb10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
actor-critic10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rfali/ma-ale
May 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
rfali/xrlad
Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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