Austin Coursey
Research Assistant, Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University
Austin Coursey is a Computer Science Ph.D. student in the MACS lab. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. He is interested in developing deep learning techniques to solve challenging, real-world problems in complex systems. His recent research developed reinforcement learning controllers for unmanned aerial vehicles under strong winds and faulty conditions as a part of a NASA-funded system-wide safety project. He has also studied anomaly detection for real freeway traffic systems and building air handling units and has researched data-driven prognostics. Now, he is researching the intersection of safe and continual reinforcement learning as a part of his NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.