Tristan Saidi

I am an undergraduate at Columbia University conducting research in Professor Matei Ciocarlie's Robotic Manipulation and Mobility (ROAM) Lab.

Currently, I 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

Email / CV / Github

Research

I'm interested in robotics, machine learning and optimal control, especially in the context of dexterity and manipulation. I want to work towards a better understanding of human dexterity through robots, and I hope that one day we can create robotic systems with human-like manipulation capabilities.

Sampling Based Exploration for Reinforcement Learning of Dexterous Manipulation
Gagan Khandate, Siqi Shang, Eric Chang, Tristan Saidi, Johnson Adams, Matei Ciocarlie
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2023
project page / arXiv /

Projects

Some projects I have been working on recently in classes, research or my free time!

	Examining the geometry of neural mode connecting loss subspaces Ting Chen, Tristan Saidi, COMS 4995: Geometric Data Analysis, Spring 2023 code / writeup /
	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 code / writeup /
	Recreation of Atari's River Raid Yongmao Luo, Tristan Saidi, Zhaomeng Wang, Jakob Steins CSEE 4840: Embedded Systems, Spring 2022 code /
	Verilog Implementation of an Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter Tristan Saidi, Bradley Sears CSEE 4823: Advanced Logic Design, Fall 2021 code /

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