Ashley W.D. Hill

PhD Researcher Engineer specialized in machine learning applied to robotics

CEA

I’m Ashley Hill, a Brit who has spent his life in France. Currently a Researcher Engineer specialized in machine learning applied to robotics. You can usually find me playing around with Machine Learning, Robotics, Electronics, Astronomy, and Programming.

Here is my thesis for the curious.

Projects

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YACHT
Yet Another C++ Helper Template, a template for starting C/C++ projects
OBD logger
An OBD logger for a car, allowing for recording key values over time
Stable Baselines
Reinforcement learning library: a fork of OpenAI Baselines
S-RL Toolbox
S-RL Toolbox: Reinforcement Learning (RL) and State Representation Learning (SRL) for Robotics
Portable Pi
A portable power efficient Raspberry pi
S.E.A.T.A
My first robotic project, High school.

Recent & Upcoming Talks

RL Tutorial on Stable Baselines
Beginner tutorial on Stable Baselines library with colab notebooks
ICINCO presentation
The presentation of the 2019 ICINCO paper

Recent Publications

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
CEA
Research Engineer
CEA
December 2021 – Present Palaiseau
Researcher Engineer specialized in machine learning applied to robotics.
 
 
 
 
 
Université Clermont-Auvergne
PhD in Machine Learning applied to Mobile Robots
Université Clermont-Auvergne
November 2018 – November 2022
 
 
 
 
 
CEA
PhD candidate
CEA
November 2018 – December 2021 Palaiseau
Artificial Intelligence applied to Mobile Robots.
 
 
 
 
 
ENSTA ParisTech - U2IS robotics lab
Research Intern
March 2018 – September 2018 Palaiseau
State representation learning for robotics.
 
 
 
 
 
Université Paris-Scalay
MSci in Machine Learning, Information and Content
Université Paris-Scalay
September 2016 – September 2018
 
 
 
 
 
Université Paris-Sud
Magistaire in Computer Science
Université Paris-Sud
September 2015 – September 2018
 
 
 
 
 
Laboratory for Computer Science
Research Intern
May 2017 – July 2017 Saclay
Experimental evaluation of performance criteria in machine learning.
 
 
 
 
 
Université Paris-Sud
BSc in Computer Science
Université Paris-Sud
September 2012 – June 2016

Skills

python

90%

C/C++

95%

Ocaml

80%

ROS

90%

Unix

95%

Docker

85%

Machine Learning

85%

Reinforcement Learning

95%

French & English

Bilingual

Embedded programming

75%

Soldering

70%

Electronic design

40%

What I do in my free time

Rock climbing

Boldering

Cycling

Exploring

Piano

10 years

Hobby electronics

Most of my projects

Programming & Servers

Running a local portainer & hobby coding

Model Painting

Contact