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### Briefing Cathy Wu, Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, discusses her journey from designing safe, efficient transportation systems to applying artificial intelligence to solve complex challenges.** Cathy Wu, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, has dedicated her career to using machine learning and reinforcement learning (RL) to…
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- ### Briefing **Cathy Wu, Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmen…: ### Briefing **Cathy Wu, Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, discusses her journey from designing safe, efficient transportation systems to applying a
- Her research focuses on applying RL to complex systems, including transportation, to desi…: Her research focuses on applying RL to complex systems, including transportation, to design reliable strategies for improving the systems.
- Wu’s research has led to the development of a proof-of-concept demonstration that RL can…: Wu’s research has led to the development of a proof-of-concept demonstration that RL can be applied to transportation systems.