Tiffany Hwu
Staff Research Scientist at Riot Games
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolTiffany Hwu is a Staff Research Scientist with a decade of experience at the intersection of AI, robotics, and computational neuroscience, currently advancing game AI and research at Riot Games. She combines deep expertise in reinforcement learning, spiking neural networks, and neuromorphic computing with practical autonomy work—building trajectory predictors, human-machine interfaces, and explainable ML for real-world systems in automotive and aviation contexts. Her Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences underpins research-driven approaches to catastrophic forgetting and spatial navigation, applied to robotics platforms ranging from Android phone robots to the Toyota HSR. Known for turning cognitive models into production-capable algorithms, she has a track record of inventing context and novelty detection methods and integrating neurosymbolic reasoning into fault diagnosis pipelines. Based in Irvine, CA, Tiffany blends rigorous academic insight with product-focused execution and a persistent curiosity for biologically inspired solutions that improve machine learning robustness.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, Irvine
English, Chinese, Japanese, Latin, SpanishGithub contributions (5)
UCI-ABR/ABR_controller
Feb 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 10 pushes in 2 years 2 months
UCI-ABR/ABR_Template
Jun 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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