Abstract: 

Reinforcement Learning recently progressed greatly in industry as one of the best techniques for sequential decision making and control policies.

Deep Mind used RL to greatly reduce energy consumption in Google's data centre. It has being used to do text summarisation, autonomous driving, dialog systems, media advertisement and in finance by JPMorgan Chase. We are at the very beginning of the adoption of these algorithms as systems are required to operate more and more autonomously.
In this workshop we will explore Reinforcement Learning, starting from its fundamentals and ending creating our own algorithms.

We will use OpenAI gym to try our RL algorithms. OpenAI is a non profit organisation that want committed to open source all their research on Artificial Intelligence. To foster innovation OpenAI crated a virtual environment, OpenAi gym, where it's easy to test Reinforcement Learning algorithms.

In particular we will start with some popular techniques like Multi Armed Bandit, going thought Markov Decision Processes and Dynamic Programming.

Bio: 

Leonardo De Marchi holds a Master in Artificial intelligence and has worked as a Data Scientist in the sport world, with clients such as New York Knicks and Manchester United, and with large social networks, like Justgiving.
He now works as Lead Data Scientist in Badoo, the largest dating site with over 360 million users, he is also the lead instructor at ideai.io, a company specialized in Deep Learning and Machine Learning training and a contractor for the European Commission.