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Lisa Zahray, EECS, '19

I’ve made some of my favorite memories on this trip, had more fun than I even imagined, all while learning skills I’ll definitely use in the future.

IHI – Heavy Industry: Energy, Infrastructure, Industrial Systems, and Aero/Space/Defense
Project: Automatic Design System Based on Reinforcement Learning for Aero-Engine Blades

Accomplishments:

  • Implemented and compared two reinforcement learning methods (DDPG and DQN) on continuous pendulum task
  • Implemented DDPG algorithm to interface with OpenFoam (fluid dynamics software) in python
  • Improved DDPG runtime by precomputing discrete actions, then moving to continuous
  • Found techniques to help combat hyperparameter sensitivity for image input