Quanquan Gu, an assistant professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, was awarded the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Machine Learning Research Award.
Since 2017, these quarterly awards are granted to faculty, doctoral candidates and graduate students who research create open source tools and contribute to the machine learning community.
Gu’s statistical machine learning research focuses on the development and analysis of principled and efficient deep reinforcement learning algorithms. These algorithms has crucial applications in future technology such as AI for healthcare industry, self-driving vehicles, and valuable insight for government policy decisions.