Ashwin Rao

About

Original academic interest was Algorithms Theory and Abstract Algebra. Now interested in Stochastic Control and Reinforcement Learning, applied to Finance and Retail industries.

Employment

• Wayfair Inc. Chief Science Officer
  2022 - Present
• Stanford University Adjunct Professor
  2018 - Present

Education

• University of Southern California Ph.D.
  1993 - 1998
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay B.Tech.
  1989 - 1993

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (17)

• Monte-Carlo and Temporal-Difference for Control
  2022 DOI: 10.1201/9781003229193-12
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• Utility Theory
  2022 DOI: 10.1201/9781003229193-7
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• Summary and Real-World Considerations
  2022 DOI: 10.1201/9781003229193-17
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• Programming and Design
  2022 DOI: 10.1201/9781003229193-2
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• Policy Gradient Algorithms
  2022 DOI: 10.1201/9781003229193-14
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• Overview
  2022 DOI: 10.1201/9781003229193-1
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• Order-Book Trading Algorithms
  2022 DOI: 10.1201/9781003229193-10
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• Multi-Armed Bandits: Exploration versus Exploitation
  2022 DOI: 10.1201/9781003229193-15
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• Monte-Carlo and Temporal-Difference for Prediction
  2022 DOI: 10.1201/9781003229193-11
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• Batch RL, Experience-Replay, DQN, LSPI, Gradient TD
  2022 DOI: 10.1201/9781003229193-13
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