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Willie M

- Research Program Mentor

PhD Doctor of Philosophy candidate

Expertise

Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Robotics

Project ideas

Project ideas are meant to help inspire student thinking about their own project. Students are in the driver seat of their research and are free to use any or none of the ideas shared by their mentors.

Training an Artificial Intelligence to Play Your Favorite Game with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Have you ever wanted a friend to play your favorite game with or had a really hard game you wanted to beat? In this project we will make an Bot that can play a game using some modern AI techniques (specifically Deep Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning).

Plant Cyborgs: Using Robotics to Give Freedom to your Plants.

Have you ever felt sorry for your plant? Or didn't have enough time to take care of it? In this project we are going to create a robot body for your house plant (using Embedded Systems like Arduino and Raspberry Pi), so it can walk around and take care of itself. If you are looking for even more of a challenge, I imagine we can do this with a goldfish instead :)

Coding skills

Python, C++, Javascript, MATLAB, and Bash

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