Jonathan Spencer
I work as a software engineer at Waymo on the Planner team, applying ML techniques to help the car reason about challenging multi-agent interactions in the next few seconds. I have a deep love for all human beings and I'm very interested in systems that model or interact with humans and make this world a better place for them.
My research background is in applying ML to robotics, using imitation learning and other methods to make the training of robotic systems less taxing on the humans involved. I earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University as part of the Edge Lab, co-advised by Mung Chiang and Peter Ramadge . Prior to Princeton I did my bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering at Brigham Young University working with Karl Warnick and the MAGICC Lab on radar signal processing and design for drone collision avoidance.