Riley Simmons-edler
Postdoctoral Researcher at Harvard University
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRiley Simmons-edler is a postdoctoral researcher with a decade of experience in deep reinforcement learning, currently based at Harvard after completing a PhD at Princeton under Prof. Sebastian Seung. Their work spans fundamental RL methods and applied domains like robotics and program synthesis, with particular strengths in exploration, generalization, biologically inspired RL, and practical efficiency. Riley spent three years as a research intern at Samsung AI Center NYC collaborating with Sebastian Seung and Daniel Lee on robotic RL and also explored acoustic sensing as a side project. Known for bridging theoretical insight with real-world robotics experiments, they focus on making RL methods more robust and deployable.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at New York UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Princeton University
Github Skills (3)
benchmark5
machine-learning4
reinforcement-learning3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RileySE/Craftax-Foraging
May 2024 - Feb 2025
Craftax adapted into a foraging task for NeuroAI research
Contributions:60 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
RileySE/marvin
Jan 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
pytorchgpuminimalistmarvinn-dimensional
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