Dabal Pedamonti

I am a postdoc in the Neural and Machine Learning Group at the University of Oxford, working with Rui Ponte Costa. My research focuses on decision making in artificial and natural agents, at the intersections of deep reinforcement learning, robotics, and computational neuroscience.

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Contact: dabal.pedamonti [at] gmail.com

Research

Reinforcement learning models of hippocampal and cerebellar networks

Pedamonti D*, Costa RP (supervisor)
PhD thesis, 2024
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Hippocampal networks support reinforcement learning in partially observable environments

Pedamonti D*, Mohinta S*, Dimitrov M, Malagon-Vina H, Ciocchi S and Costa RP
Poster at ACAIN 2021, CoSyNe 2022, and NAISys 2022
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Achieving Goals using Reward Shaping and Curriculum Learning

Mihai Anca, Jonathan D Thomas, Dabal Pedamonti, Mark Hansen, Matthew Studley
Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference
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Education

2019 - 2024

PhD in Machine Learning, University of Bristol

2014 - 2019

MEng (Hons) Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh