Saeed Hedayatian

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Southern California. I am broadly interested in sequential decision-making problems. I actively look for sources of inspiration in adjacent fields like generative modeling and quality-diversity optimization and explore various applications to open-ended learning, multi-agent systems, and meta-learning.

I am advised by Prof. Stefanos Nikolaidis and am part of the ICAROS lab at USC.

Prior to starting my PhD, I got my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Sharif University of Technology, Iran.

Research Interests:

• Reinforcement Learning
• Quality-Diversity Optimization
• Generative Modeling
• Open-ended Learning

Outside of research, I enjoy reading of all sorts, from philosophy to psychoanalysis to physics! I’m also an amateur cinephile, check out my letterboxd!