Michael Villarreal

CS PhD student at UTK
tvillarr@vols.utk.edu

Research


Interests

  • Transportation Autonomy
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Sustainability
  • Computer Vision
  • Medical Imagery


Publications

"Can ChatGPT Enable ITS? The Case of Mixed Traffic Control via Reinforcement Learning." Michael Villarreal, Bibek Poudel, and Weizi Li. ITSC 2023. [Link] [Poster]

"Analyzing Emissions and Energy Efficiency in Mixed Traffic Control at Unsignalized Intersections" Michael Villarreal, Dawei Wang, Jia Pan, and Weizi Li. FISTS 2024. [Link] [Slides] [Poster]

"Mixed Traffic Control and Coordination from Pixels" Michael Villarreal, Bibek Poudel, Jia Pan, and Weizi Li. ICRA 2024. [Link] [Poster] [Video] (Poster and Video done by Bibek Poudel)

"Efficient quality-diversity optimization through diverse quality species." Ryan Wickman, Bibek Poudel, Michael Villarreal, Xiaofei Zhang, and Weizi Li. GECCO 2023. [Link]

Teaching


Teaching Assistant

At University of Memphis:
COMP 4601 Models of Computation
COMP 7/8120 Cryptography and Data Security
COMP 7/8712 Algorithms and Problem Solving

At UTK:
COSC 4/545 Fundamentals of Digital Archaeology
COSC 4/552 Computer Graphics


Guest Presentations

Guest Lectures and Lab for Spring 2023 COSC 4/552 at UTK about Blender. [Slides]

Guest Lecture for Spring 2023 COMP 7720 at University of Memphis about Autoencoders. [Slides]

Guest Lecture for Fall 2021 COMP 4741 at University of Memphis about Autoencoders/VAEs. [Slides]

Contact


Personal Email: tmichaelvillarreal@gmail.com
School Email: tvillarr@vols.utk.edu
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