In this episode, our guest is Ben Recht. Ben is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.  We discuss several topics, including his research trajectory, Ben's tour of reinforcement learning, and his passion for music, among others. Check out Ben's website here: http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/

Outline

00:00 - Intro 

01:01 - Ben predicts the birth of "inControl"

02:40 - Personal research trajectory

06:55 - How and why did you dive into control theory?

08:43 - Influential figures who shaped Ben's research

13:50 -  The "argmin" blog &  myth busting

27:43 - Ben's tour of reinforcement learning

45:18 - Future challenges for control

52:06 - Biological origin of learning

58:24 - "This or that" game

1:02:54 - Questions from the audience

1:14:51 - What would you do if you were a student today?

1:17:00 - Ben's band: "the fun years"

Episode links

Ben's website: http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/

argmin: http://www.argmin.net/

the fun years: http://thefunyears.com/

A tour of reinforcement learning: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09460

Patterns, predictions and actions: http://mlstory.org/

System level synthesis: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01634

Aizerman's conjecture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aizerman%27s_conjecture

Podcast info

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Acknowledgments and sponsors

This episode was supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research on «Dependable, ubiquitous automation», which you can check here:

https://nccr-automation.ch/nccr-automation

The podcast benefits from the help of an incredibly talented and passionate team. Special thanks to Arian Bastani, Benjamin Sawicki, Elise Cahard, Florian Dorfler, Frederik Banis, John Lygeros, ETH studio (Philipp Zumbrunnen), and mirrorlake studio (Roman Frischknecht). The support of the Swiss National Science Foundation is also gratefully acknowledged. 

Music was composed by A New Element.

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Releasedatum: 16-5-2022 13:00:00