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Matthew Vandergrift

Graduate Student @RLAI at University of Alberta

I am a graduate student at the University of Alberta, working in the Reinforcement Learning and Artificial Intelligence (RLAI) lab under the supervision of Martha White. I am passionate about designing principled and sound approaches for online sequential decision making. I am always happy to chat or discuss research ideas with anyone else interested in any part of this admittely broad area. Please reach out via email or on Bluesky to chat.

Current work

  • Online Hyperparameter tuning for RL algorithms
  • Sparsity in policy and value networks for stable and continual learning
  • Regression operators on more complex statistical primitives

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Aside from research, I am a big fan of hockey in particular of the Edmonton Oilers and the Ottawa Senators. I enjoy ice skating and cycling in my freetime.