Also known as: gregorylawrence
Greg Maniatis lives in Bellingham, WA. He is a 1998 graduate of Gig Harbor High School and 2002 graduate of Western Washington University. His favorite bands are Smashing Pumpkins, Tom Waits and The Velvet Underground. His favorite films are Queen and Family Guy.
Berkeley, CA | Oakland, CA | San Francisco, CA
Also known as: gregorylawrence
Industry experience: Designed and implemented a recommendation system that allows users to discover relevant content; parallelized algorithms using the Hadoop Map/Reduce framework; wrote scripts to process user data for an abuse detection prototype task, trained a linear model with thousands of features, and used model to detect user accounts that were likely to be abusive; wrote several scripts and Map/Reduce code that collects, processes, and analyzes terabytes worth of user data Grad school experience: Developed efficient reinforcement learning algorithms for motor control problems; improved the learning performance of policy search methods by leveraging an agent's sensor data; used these algorithms to optimize controllers for partially observable Markov decision processes with continuous parameters; learned good controllers for a simulated dart throwing problem and for a simulated quadruped robot locomotion task Specialties Skills: Java, C/C++, Python, PHP, Hadoop Map/Reduce, PIG, Lisp, Shell scripting, Matlab, Open Dynamics Engine, SD/FAST, Unix Coursework: Statistical learning theory, Combinatorial algorithms and data structures, Linear programming, Knowledge representation, Probabilities and random processes, Linear systems theory, Computer vision, and Natural language processing
