Thiago Simão
Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology
Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolThiago Simão is an Assistant Professor and researcher with 11 years of experience specializing in safe reinforcement learning and reliable AI for real-world, constrained-interaction settings. He develops algorithms that guarantee minimum performance and avoid catastrophic events, aiming to make sequential decision-making methods safe for industrial deployment. His academic path spans a PhD at TU Delft, a postdoc at Radboud University, and a research internship at Microsoft where he worked on batch RL methods that outperform behavior policies without direct access to them. Comfortable bridging theory and practice, he has a track record of applying formal methods to probabilistic planning and shipping open-source prototypes dating back to undergraduate projects. Based in Delft, he combines rigorous formal analysis with a pragmatic focus on risk-aware AI suitable for operators in high-stakes environments.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Universidade Federal de LavrasTU DelftUniversity of São PauloTechnician, Technician at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Sul de Minas Gerais
English
Github Skills (45)
sublime-text10
latex10
github-pages10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
sublime-text-plugin10
ranking9
blackjack8
reinforcement-learning8
algorithms8
tac8
bootstrapping7
tic-tac-toe7
science7
computer-science7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tdsimao/gym-factored
Feb 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:98 commits, 39 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
tdsimao/crawler-rss-feed
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:29 commits, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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