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Ishan Malhotra
Undergraduate, The University of Chicago
Project: Ishan Malhotra
Mentors: Brian Nord, Fermilab & Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Research Area Keywords: Machine Learning & AI // Physics & Astronomy
Project Description: Ishan Malhotra is a sophomore at the University of Chicago studying computer science and economics. This summer, he worked with Dr. Brian Nord and the DeepSkies Lab on the early stages of a project aiming to devise a self-driving telescope. His contributions to the project centered around creating a reinforcement learning model to train the self-driving telescope.