Ram Ananth Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

Part of Entrepreneur First (EF) Toronto‘s third cohort. EF invests in high-potential individuals to find a co-founder and start globally impactful, venture-backed technology companies. With a portfolio valued at over $5B, EF has built over 500 companies and is backed by distinguished tech founders and investors including Reid Hoffman(LinkedIn), Greylock.

Worked on Transfer Learning in Reinforcement Learning domains with applications in simulator-to-real transfer, including a novel application for epidemic spread control

• Assisted in the delivery of senior undergraduate level course titled "Dynamic and Distributed Decision Making"
• Designed the question papers for all exams from scratch and managed the necessary grading
• Supported students with theoretical and practical concerns regarding single agent and multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

Bengaluru Area, India

• Investigated the use of natural gradients to improve sample efficiency of sparse reward Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms associated with robotic systems
• Proposed a method using practical computation of natural gradients that learned dexterous manipulation in simulated goal-based robotic tasks using fewer interactions with the environment compared to existing sparse.

• Devised strategies on how to tackle several problems related to personalization of e-Learning using an AI driven approach
• Deployed R packages to facilitate personalization based on the devised machine learning solutions

Masc, Machine Learning And Operations Research

Recipient of the MIE Graduate Research Fellowship and full Tuition Waiver for pursuing MASc Thesis: Transfer Reinforcement Learning Across.

Bachelor Of Technology, Mechanical Engineering