Research Presentations and Publications

Deep Learning within the Context of Doom

Published in North Carolina State University Symposium, 2019

There are two main approaches to reinforcement learning: value based methods that aim to find an optimal Q-function, and policy based ones that directly look for the optimal policy. However most of reinforcement learning problems (such as learning to play games) have large or even continuous states spaces, which makes constructing Q-values table impossible. Thus, there is a need for approximate reinforcement learning. In this paper the Deep reinforcement learning methods we’ve used to train an agent to play in a Doom environment.

Recommended citation: Ahluwalia, Saran and Laber, Eric. (2019, May). " Deep Learning within the Context of Doom" Unpublished Manucript http://ahlusar1989.github.io/files/st_498_independent_study_05_04_2019.pdf

Multi-angled Statistical Approach to Human Trafficking Detection and Profiling

Published in Laboratory for Analytical Sciences Conference, 2017

This conference presentation highlights the use of deep learning applied to human trafficking.

Recommended citation: Saanchi, Y, Wang, M., Ahluwalia, S., Laber, E. & Caltagirone, S. (2017, December). Multi-angled Statistical Approach to Human Trafficking Detection and Profiling. Laboratory for Analytical Sciences, Raleigh, NC. http://ahlusar1989.github.io/files/las_2017_trafficking_detection_v2.pdf