One benefit of working in a research lab in an amazing research institution like University of Illinois is to be able to work with smart people! One of that smart people, which is also my friend, Yuan, came to me one day with an interesting idea to a simple problem that we often encounter. The problem was a gap of […]
Category: Artificial Intelligence
PayPal Messenger Bot
During summer 2017, I joined PayPal’s Next-Gen Commerce (NGC) Team. It’s an amazing team working on innovative products. Internally it’s known as one of the special projects team. I was grateful I could work on that team and had to learn from great mentors like Greg, Shilpa, and Dereck. I was working there as a software engineering intern. I had […]
Pong AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk1335b1NEM Artificial Intelligence program that plays single player Pong. Pong AI is single agent AI that is modeled using Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning called Q-Learning. Q-Learning is very simple. All we need is a set of states, a set of actions the agent could do, and a metric to measure the ‘quality’ of the agent’s decision. So, for the states, […]