Tristan Luca Saidi

I am an incoming PhD student in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Before that, I completed my first year of graduate studies at Columbia University in the department of Computer Science, where I was very fortunate to work with Professor Andrew J. Blumberg and Professor Matei Ciocarlie. During this time, I worked on theoretically grounded methods that use discrete graph curvature to improve geometric data analysis. Before that, I worked primarily on robot learning for dexterous manipulation and spent some time working on reinforcement learning for snake locomotion as well.