Josiah Hanna Assistant Professor, UW--Madison

Students

Current PhD Students

Nicholas Corrado
Research Interests: data efficiency; action representation learning; data augmentation in reinforcement learning.
Representative Work: On-Policy Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning Without On-Policy Sampling [Arxiv Pre-print]

Brahma Pavse
Research Interests: offline policy evaluation; representation learning; RL for queueing problems.
Representative Work: State-Action Similarity-Based Representations for Off-Policy Evaluation [NeurIPS '23].

Subhojyoti Mukerjee (co-advised w/ Rob Nowak)
Research Interests: optimal data collection for policy evaluation and learning; reinforcement learning theory.
Representative Work: ReVar: Strengthening Policy Evaluation Via Reduced Variance Sampling [UAI '23].

Adam Labiosa
Research Interests: RL + robotics; multi-agent reinforcement learning; sim2real
Representative Publication: Reinforcement Learning within the Classical Robotics Stack: A Case Study in Robot Soccer [ICRA '25']

Yunfu Deng
Research Interests: RL + robotics; sim2real.

Abhinav Harish
Research Interests: RL + robotics; multi-agent reinforcement learning.
Representative Work: Reinforcement Learning via Auxiliary Task Distillation [ECCV '24].

Will Cong
Research Interests: model-based RL; partial observability; RL + robotics

Current MS Students

  • Anshuman Senapti
  • Joseph Zhong

Current Undergraduate Students

  • Ben Hong
  • Chen Li
  • Lucas Poon

Alumni

  • Yuxiao Qu, B.S. in CS (next PhD @ Carnegie Mellon)
  • Adhit Sankaran, B.S. in CS (next MS @ Cornell)
  • Arun Ravi, MS in CS (next Google)
  • Yoon Chae Na, MS in CS
  • Shreyansh Sharma, MS in CS (next Amazon)
  • Duohan Zhang, MS in Stats (next PhD @ Penn State)
  • John Balis, MS in CS

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    • Spring 2025: CS 639: Autonomous Robotics
    • Fall 2023: CS 760: Machine Learning
    • Spring 2023: CS 540: Intro to AI
    • Fall 2022: CS 839: Topics in RL
    • Fall 2021: CS 540: Intro to AI
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