Sylee Dandekar

About Me

I am currently a MS/PhD student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst studying Computer Science. I am interested in reinforcement learning research and am currently working with Dr Scott Niekum.

Prior to starting graduate school, I worked as an Associate Scientist at Raytheon BBN Technologies in Cambridge, MA. I completed my undergraduate studies in Computational Mathematics with minors in Computer Science and Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Recent News

March 2022: Awarded IDEALS Conference Scholarship 

June 2021: Awarded Tapia Conference Scholarship

August 2021: Awarded UMass CICS Scholarship