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- Name
\nDIALLO <\/strong>Elhadji Amadou Oury
\n<\/strong><\/li>\n- Country\/ Region of Citizenship
\nRepublic of Senegal
\n<\/strong><\/li>\n- Graduated from
\nSup De Co Technologie<\/strong><\/li>\n- Department
\nDepartment of Computer Science and Communications Engineering (Master\u2019s)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MEXT (Embassy Recommendation) Scholarship Student
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How did you find out about Waseda University? <\/strong><\/h3>\n
When I was searching for good research universities in Japan, because I\u2019m a MEXT student, we needed to find 3 universities.\u00a0 At that moment I met one of my friends who graduated from Keio University and I asked him some advice.\u00a0 And he highly recommended me Waseda University.\u00a0 After that I thought that Waseda was a good choice.\u00a0 Because I wanted to be in Tokyo, a big city, and I really like it.\u00a0 At first I chose 3 universities, but after getting in touch with my supervisor I just decided to choose one university.\u00a0 I risked my life by choosing one.<\/p>\n
Why did you choose Waseda University?<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nIt\u2019s not easy to answer, but I had a very specific research topic before choosing any universities.\u00a0 I found at Waseda that they have a very good laboratory which deals with my topic of interest, and after getting in touch with the professor of this laboratory, I said \u201cwhy not, it\u2019s a chance I have to take\u201d.\u00a0 To be honest, it\u2019s just after choosing the laboratory, I knew that Waseda University has very big reputation. It\u2019s just after choosing because the most important thing for me was research that I want to do.\u00a0 This is because I have to spend two years doing research and I\u2019m not interested in about general reputation only but about academic publication records.\u00a0 And I found that my supervisor has very good publications.<\/p>\n
How did you get information for our program?<\/h3>\n
As I explained it, I got in touch at first with my supervisor.\u00a0 I found much information about admission procedures and all the requirements in his website.\u00a0 I got in touch with him to discuss about my research proposal when we got an improvement about the topic and he accepted me in his lab.\u00a0 Then he transferred my application to the Center for International Education (CIE), and I got in touch with them for official admission procedures.\u00a0 Then after, I started looking at the Waseda official website because I didn\u2019t start with this way as I got all the information from my supervisor and his website.<\/p>\n
Did you have any concerns before coming to Japan?<\/h3>\n
Off course!\u00a0 It\u2019s a new culture and my main concern was the language.\u00a0 Because being in Japan without speaking any Japanese at all or with very bad Japanese level, I was a little bit stressed about \u201chow can I have good experience here?\u201d.\u00a0 But since I\u2019m here I\u2019m very lucky. Even if I have sometime communication problem but people are very helpful and they are really willing to help.<\/p>\n
Have you had any difficulties when you started a new life here?<\/h3>\n
As I just explained it, I even knew that it is going to be challenging to live in a country.\u00a0 I had some difficulties in administrative procedures such as filling forms, some inquiries and some procedures because all papers and procedures were in Japanese and you have to fill most of them.\u00a0 Fortunately my lab mates are very very helpful and they are very nice.\u00a0 Every time I have forms and some inquiries, I can just print the forms in the lab and \u201chey guys, help me to fill this in!\u201d.\u00a0 But nowadays I learn to write some basic Kanji (Chinese characters) and I can recognize my address and the date of birth etc.\u00a0 I can even write it by myself.<\/p>\n
How is your life in Japan and Waseda?<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nIt\u2019s a life changing experience.\u00a0 I\u2019m a little bit busy with my research, but I try to get control of my life and time to enjoy the life in Tokyo.\u00a0 And general life at Waseda, I join a Waseda club at Monodukuri Kobo.\u00a0 Sometime I spend my time there.\u00a0 It\u2019s not my field but it\u2019s related one.\u00a0 Then it\u2019s a good opportunity for me to practice what I\u2019m doing in my research and theory.<\/p>\n
I spent time during summer holidays to visit many places around Tokyo, for example, Ito and Atami.\u00a0 I like spending my time swimming and seeing the beach with nice view and sunset.\u00a0 Also I went to Nagoya for one week to meet a friend.\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait for the next holiday!\u00a0 And I like Japanese food too.\u00a0 My favorite one is Sashimi (row fish) with tuna or salmon.\u00a0 I feel little bit at home here in Japan as we eat fish and rice as main dishes in my country.<\/p>\n
What do you do in your free time?<\/h3>\n
Generally on Sundays, I have a specific place which is a park.\u00a0 I really like going there on Sundays because it\u2019s my only free day.\u00a0 I bring a book to a park and relax with reading a book and enjoy contemplating nature.\u00a0 Two or three times a week after my research, I have another nice place which is a swimming pool or a spa.\u00a0 I manage to go there at least two times a week.\u00a0 There is a big gym next to my dormitory and I get a member card.<\/p>\n
How are the relationships with your supervisor and lab members?<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nI think I have very good relationships with the supervisor and all my lab members.\u00a0 I remember when I just arrived here, my supervisor was very welcoming.\u00a0 He asked me many questions.\u00a0 I was very surprised because it was my first time experience in this kind of discussion with one of my professors and I like this.\u00a0 After this they organized a welcome party for new comers and I was luckily the only one new international student.\u00a0 My supervisor really supports me for my research, and he gives me every time advice.\u00a0 He is now holding a new seminar just for international students.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t have it and just had a seminar for everyone, Japanese and international students before I came here.\u00a0 That means now we have luckily two seminars and two opportunities.\u00a0 He always recommends us some new research papers to try some new ideas to give us about research topics.\u00a0 He is doing his best as much as he can help international students.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if there is the same in all labs, but in my lab I\u2019m happy, I\u2019m at home.\u00a0 I never feel homesick when I\u2019m in the lab.\u00a0 And the lab members are all my friends!\u00a0 We share the time from 9.00am to 8.00pm together in the lab.\u00a0 Sometimes we go out together and spend our break for discussing.\u00a0\u00a0 And they help me if I have problems and we usually share some insight about our research topic.<\/p>\n
Outline of the research<\/h3>\n
Many real world domains have very large state spaces and complex dynamics, requiring an agent to reason over extremely high dimensional observations.\u00a0 Developping efficient and effective algorithms for such environments is critically important across a variety of domain.\u00a0 Multi Agent Systems (MAS) arise in a variety of domains from robotics to economics.\u00a0 In general, decision making in MAS is intractable due to the exponentional growth of the problem complexity with increasing number of agents or environment size.<\/p>\n
The past years have seen increasingly rapid advantages in Artificial Intelligence (AI).\u00a0 Google Deepmind have produced spectacular results in applying Reinforcement Learning (RL) to very high dimensional and complex environments such as videogames.\u00a0 The AlphaGo algorithm has won against Lee Sedol in the Go game.\u00a0 AlphaGo is a computer agent for the Go board game that plays at human world champion level.\u00a0 Go was considered to be the next big challenge for AI and its solution was thought to still be years away.\u00a0 The succes of AlphaGo demonstrates the potential and the power of the new deep RL methods.\u00a0 By learning from trial-and-error, an agent or robot can adapt its behaviour in a novel or changing environment by observing the reward of its action and taking the optimal sequence of actions in order to achieve a goal state.<\/p>\n
In this research, we will implement and evaluate the state-of-the-art RL techniques in a Multi Agent context by applying them on different atari games by using an asynchronous RL framework to reduce the large resource requirements.<\/p>\n
The goal of our research is to explore how multiple agents controlled by autonomous learning agents interact when sharing a complex environment. Phenomena such as cooperation and competition may emerge.\u00a0 Moreover, \u00a0the findings of this research can be applied to solve a wide range domain specific problems with little effort.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>What is your career goal after your degree completion?<\/h3>\nAfter this master, I want to take a PhD.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know where it is going to be, in Japan or elsewhere.\u00a0 But I want to know at least my PhD because I promised my dad since I was young that I wanted to become a professor.\u00a0 Then I\u2019m working to achieve my goal and I will do my best in my research.\u00a0 Even if it\u2019s boring sometime or time consuming, I\u2019m happy with the research and I want to become a research scientist or why not a professor.<\/p>\n
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Short message to the prospective students<\/h3>\n
in English<\/h4>\n
Studying here at Waseda University is a life changing and amazing multicultural experience which helps you to make friends from all around the world. As a graduate student, you will receive a deep research guidance from your supervisor.\u00a0 He will help you to master the state-of-the-art methodologies of your field.\u00a0 You will have the opportunity to get involved in many social events to enjoy your life as an international student.<\/p>\n
Learn Japanese, be respectful and open minded to fully enjoy your new life in Tokyo.<\/p>\n
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in French<\/h4>\n
- Country\/ Region of Citizenship