Ph.D. 2022
Joined Spring 2018Now: GPU Software Development Engineer, Intel
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, 2022
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, 2017
Kai Liang (Russell) joined the Self-aware Complex Systems Lab in Spring 2018 after receiving his undergraduate degree from Iowa State University in Fall 2017. During his undergraduate studies, he interned at the Bobcat Company and Danfoss Power Solutions. His research interests included using deep learning, reinforcement learning, and computer vision to solve problems in engineering, cyber-physical systems, and autonomous systems. His creativity extends beyond academics to photography, digital art, and strategy video games.
He graduated from the SCS Lab in August 2022 and is currently a GPU Software Development Engineer at Intel.
Research interests: Deep learning, reinforcement learning, computer vision
Publications with the lab (8)
- AgGym: An agricultural biotic stress simulation environment for ultra-precision management planning — Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (2026)
- Roadway weather challenges illuminate real‐world driving biomarkers of dementia risk — Alzheimer's & Dementia (2023)
- MDPGT: momentum-based decentralized policy gradient tracking — Proceedings of the AAAI conference on artificial intelligence (2022)
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- Query-based targeted action-space adversarial policies on deep reinforcement learning agents — Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 12th international conference on cyber-physical … (2021)
- Robustifying reinforcement learning agents via action space adversarial training — 2020 American control conference (ACC) (2020)
- Spatiotemporally constrained action space attacks on deep reinforcement learning agents — Proceedings of the AAAI conference on artificial intelligence (2020)
- Robust deep reinforcement learning for traffic signal control — Journal of Big Data Analytics in Transportation (2020)
- Deep reinforcement learning for adaptive traffic signal control — Dynamic systems and control conference 59162, V003T18A006 (2019)
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