University of Southern California

Oregon State University

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow

- Collaborating with USC artificial intelligence professors to bring AI and conversations on ethics into high school classrooms in the greater Los Angeles area- Helped facilitate a scalable and affordable in-school robotics/coding program to help foster student computational thinking skills- Published a paper on the in-school robotics/coding program in the 2020 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition

- Lead class discussion on discrete mathematics for computer science- Created discussion materials, homework problems, exam problems- Graded homework- Held office hours for students

Graduate Teaching Assistant

- Contributed to creating test cases and scripts for grading students homework- Held office hours and handled student regrade requests

- Conducted research on shared autonomy for haptic teleoperation- Published research in HRI Pioneers- Created robotic demo with a robot that can brush hair- Demo accepted and presented at Neurips 2019

Graduate Research Assistant

- Developing explainable reinforcement learning algorithms using PyTorch- Building experimentation infrastructure using Singularity containers- Demoed work to XAI grant evaluators- Published a paper in AAAI-19

DARPA XAI Research Assistant

- Developing algorithms for autonomous control tasks- Exploring research in explainable artificial intelligence

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Student Contractor: Explainable Artificial Intelligence

- Conducted basic research in the area of reinforcement learning- Experimented with Deep Q-Networks using Tensorflow- Used Malmo and ROS Gazebo domains to test experiments- Published a paper in AAAI-18

Research Intern

- Used Keras, a deep learning library, to implement cascading autoencoders- Worked alongside a PhD student on his final dissertation work- Published a paper in IROS 2017

Undergraduate Research Assistant

- Daily use of Puppet for configuration management of servers, including writing and maintaining custom modules- Placed 2nd at the company hackathon with a project implementing continuous deployment using Docker and Capistrano- Created monitoring tools for Stackdriver- Created AWS monitoring tools- Performed weekly audits of client logs and system metrics to preemptively flag problems- Attended weekly meetings with clients

Rey Pocius