Dylan Ashley Email & Phone Number

Lugano, Ti, Ch

Thuwal, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

Thuwal, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

- Worked with Prof. Eric Feron and Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber on different research projects covering several topics, including robotics and multimodal large language models.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

- Founding member of a non-profit startup based in Alberta.- Startup connects communities to social supports to bridge the gap between the availabilityof services and accessibility of services.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland

- Working with Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber on several deep learning topics.

Thuwal, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

- Worked with Prof. Eric Feron and Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber on different research projects covering several topics, including multimodal large language models and robotics.

Edmonton, Canada Area

- Official representative of over 7,900 graduate students in academic matters.- Advocated for graduate student issues to the university and worked with the university to build a better learning environment for students.- Delivered several significant advocacy victories, including better oversight for mentorship and a reduced increment in tuition during a budgetary crisis.- Time commitment of approximately 30 hours a week for a one-year term.

Edmonton, Canada Area

- Worked with Prof. Richard S. Sutton to investigate catastrophic forgetting in neural networks and the effect of step-size adaptation on it.- Worked with Chen Ma, Junfeng Wen, and Prof. Yoshua Bengio to investigate combining successor features with universal value functions for transfer in reinforcement learning.- Worked with Valliappa Chockalingam, Braedy Kuzma, and Prof. Vadim Bulitko to investigate evolving mate-selection strategies in artificial life.- Worked with Prof. Richard… Show more - Worked with Prof. Richard S. Sutton to investigate catastrophic forgetting in neural networks and the effect of step-size adaptation on it.- Worked with Chen Ma, Junfeng Wen, and Prof. Yoshua Bengio to investigate combining successor features with universal value functions for transfer in reinforcement learning.- Worked with Valliappa Chockalingam, Braedy Kuzma, and Prof. Vadim Bulitko to investigate evolving mate-selection strategies in artificial life.- Worked with Prof. Richard S. Sutton to investigate adaptive bootstrapping for temporal difference methods in a reinforcement learning context. Show less

Edmonton, Canada Area

- Worked with Prof. Richard S. Sutton under a four-month NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award.- Investigated adaptive bootstrapping for temporal difference methods in a reinforcement learning context.- Organized the 2017 offering of a recurring series of summer artificial intelligence talks for the department (15 sessions).

Edmonton, Canada Area

- Worked with Prof. Richard S. Sutton under a four-month NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award.- Used the iRobot Create platform to build a concrete implementation of general value functions as predictive knowledge.- Analyzed the overfitting behavior of random state representations in reinforcement learning.- Experimented with a new method of learning the variance of states in a reinforcement learning context.

Edmonton, Canada Area

- Teacher's Assistant for introduction to file and database management course.- Was responsible for running a weekly lab (18 students; 11 sessions), creating lab exams, and marking student assignments/projects.

Edmonton, Canada Area

- Worked with Prof. Jose Nelson Amaral and the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation under a four-month NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award.- Performed low-level, microarchitecture-independent characterisation of new and existing workloads for benchmarks from upcoming CPU benchmarking suite.- Mentored high school student for two months as part of a high school internship program.- Presented research poster at summer undergraduate research poster session.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Artificial Intelligence

Activities and Societies: Served as Ph.D. Student Representative on the Faculty of Informatics Council. Working with the Dalle Molle.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science, 4.0 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Served as Vice-President Academic of the Graduate Students' Association. Representative on Faculty of Graduate.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science, 3.7 Gpa