Mengmeng Wu

Discovering novel strategies with Reinforcement Learning.

Australian Institute of Sport

Queensland University of Technology

Assoc. Prof. Simon Denman

Dr. Tharindu Fernando

Dr Kien Nguyen Thanh

Mengmeng was born in the capital of China Beijing. She finished her Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering from Beijing University of Technology, where she graduated with top honours. She then went on to complete her Master's degree with distinction in Signal Processing and Communications at University of Edinburgh. She has worked in the financial sector in both China and Australia after graduation in the past few years. She moved to Brisbane to complete her PhD at QUT last year.

For the past few years, I have been working in the financial industry, but my true passion has always been in the field of machine learning, in particular, applying algorithm to develop with strategies. Previously, I have utilized basic machine learning techniques for horse racing and stock market predictions. I felt incredibly excited when I discovered this project involving the utilization of reinforcement learning in the sports industry. I believe the sports domain offers ample opportunities for efficient exploration and innovative application of reinforcement learning.

I will seek to develop novel reinforcement methods and explore how these methods can be used within a sporting context to discover new sporting strategies. Such as efficiently incorporate information from external simulation tools and imitation learning into a RL pipeline.

Liu Xiang made history by winning the gold medal in the men’s 110m hurdles during 2004 Athens Olympic, becoming the first Chinese male athlete to win an Olympic gold in track and field.

I have had the pleasure of studying in some stunning cities, such as Beijing, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Melbourne and Sydney, looking forward for the new adventures in Brisbane.