John C. Raisbeck

I am a Ph.D. Student in the Autonomous Learning Laboratory in the Manning College of Information and Computing Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Before beginning my Ph.D., I worked at the Center for Systems Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital under Professor Hakho Lee.
My research interest is in the phenomenon of machine learning; how machines learn, how different machines learn differently, and the sets of possible solutions. I am also interested in the use of machine learning to investigate problems in the real world. My view is that learning is best understood through the lens of Reinforcement Learning, the "most general subfield" of machine learning. For more, please take a look at my research statement.