Sam Lobel
Machine Learning Research Scientist at Nuro
East Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Lobel is a machine learning research scientist specializing in reinforcement learning for autonomous systems, currently applying optimistic exploration algorithms to real-world AV problems at Nuro. With a Ph.D. from Brown under George Konidaris, his research bridges classical RL theory and deep learning to produce practical, uncertainty-aware exploration methods. He has industry experience at SonyAI and earlier software roles where he built production data pipelines and web tools, giving him uncommon fluency across research prototypes and production engineering. Based in Rhode Island and active in both academic and applied settings, Sam focuses on making theoretically grounded RL work reliably at scale in complex, safety-critical environments.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Brown UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Physics, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (121)
python9
flask9
reinforcement-learning9
actor-critic8
deep-reinforcement-learning8
pyramid8
webapp8
deep-learning8
gpu8
machine-learning8
node-postgres7
wsgi7
numpy7
wandb7
bottle7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
samlobel/onager
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Lightweight python library for launching experiments and tuning hyperparameters, either locally or on a cluster
Contributions:6 reviews, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years
python-librarypythontuning-hyperparametershyperparameterslocally
samlobel/AutoRecorder
Oct 2015 - Mar 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 6 months
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