Tristan Saidi
I am a first year PhD student at Columbia University in the department of Computer Science. I'm currently conducting research in Professor Matei Ciocarlie's Robotic Manipulation and Mobility (ROAM) Lab.
I primarily work on robot learning for dexterous manipulation, and have spent some time working on reinforcement learning for snake locomotion as well. Prior to my time with robotics, I spent a year doing research for Professor Kenneth Shepard in the Bioelectronic Systems Lab.
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Research
I am interested in exploring the intersection between data geometry and machine learning. Concretely, I want to understand the extent to which data geometry can aid the design and implementation of modern machine learning models.
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R×R: Rapid eXploration for Reinforcement
Learning via Sampling-based Reset Distributions and Imitation Pre-training
Gagan Khandate*,
Tristan Saidi*,
Siqi Shang*,
Eric Chang,
Johnson Adams,
Matei Ciocarlie
Submitted to RSS Special Issue: Autonomous Robots, 2024
arXiv
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Sampling Based Exploration for Reinforcement Learning of Dexterous Manipulation
Gagan Khandate*,
Siqi Shang*,
Eric Chang,
Tristan Saidi,
Yang Liu,
Seth Dennis,
Johnson Adams,
Matei Ciocarlie
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2023
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arXiv
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Projects
Some projects I have been working on recently in classes, research or my free time!
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Exploring Adversarial Perturbations to Diffusion
Models
Tristan Saidi,
Leon Zhou
STCS 6701: Foundations of Graphical Models, Fall 2023
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Examining the geometry of neural mode connecting
loss subspaces
Ting Chen,
Tristan Saidi,
COMS 4995: Geometric Data Analysis, Spring 2023
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On the Effect of Unsupervised Regularization for Image Classification
Tristan Saidi,
Sagarika Sharma,
Mitali Juneja,
Nikhilesh Belulkar
COMS 4995: Neural Networks and Deep Learning, Fall 2022
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Recreation of Atari's River Raid
Yongmao Luo,
Tristan Saidi,
Zhaomeng Wang,
Jakob Steins
CSEE 4840: Embedded Systems, Spring 2022
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Verilog Implementation of an Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter
Tristan Saidi,
Bradley Sears
CSEE 4823: Advanced Logic Design, Fall 2021
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