About Me

I am a fourth-year undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, pursuing a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.

I currently work in Prof. Sergey Levine’s lab as an undergraduate researcher, working on model-based reinforcement learning together with my mentors Roberto Calandra and Rowan McAllister.

My interests include reinforcement learning, machine learning, as well as pure mathematics.

This semester, I am a TA for EECS 126, an upper-division course on probability and random processes.

You may reach me at kchua (at) berkeley (dot) edu.

Publications

• Deep Reinforcement Learning in a Handful of Trials using Probabilistic Dynamics Models.
  arXiv | website | code
  Kurtland Chua, Roberto Calandra, Rowan McAllister, Sergey Levine.
  Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Conference 2018 (Spotlight presentation).
  ICML 2018 Workshop on Planning and Learning (Oral presentation).
  ICML 2018 Workshop on Prediction and Generative Modeling in Reinforcement Learning.

Honors

Phi Beta Kappa (2018). Inducted as a junior.
Dean’s Honors List for Fall ‘15, Spring 16’, Fall ‘16, Spring ‘17, Spring ‘18.
Quantedge Award for Academic Excellence (2018). Awarded to students of senior standing with a 4.0 GPA.
Kraft Award for Freshmen (2015). Awarded to students who earn a 4.0 GPA during their first semester at UC Berkeley.