Cathy Wu (Hiring PhD/postdocs)

This project was 4 years in the making and it's finally out!

We found that controlling vehicle speeds to mitigate traffic across a city can cut carbon emissions by 11-22%. To do this, we used deep reinforcement learning to optimize one million eco-driving scenarios. 🚗🤖🧠

If pure AI or pure search isn't working for you, consider learning-guided optimization!

This approach combines the best of both worlds; our most recent work demonstrates this for coordinating agents in warehouse robotics.

Have you noticed how navigation apps include walking & waiting for public transit, but excludes parking & walking for driving? After being late a few times 😅, we finally did. We got curious: what if these apps account for parking?

📣 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽!

I’m looking to hire 𝟭–𝟮 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘀 to work with us across the group’s research areas, including:
🤖 Deep reinforcement learning
🚦 Traffic modeling & control
🧠 Neural combinatorial optimization

📣 Inviting all in the neural combinatorial optimization community to submit to our upcoming NeurIPS workshop!