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Joseph A. Walton

PhD researcher in Operations Research, reinforcement learning, and simulation-based decision making.

I develop theory, computational tools, and simulation environments for sequential decisions under uncertainty, with applications in queueing, service systems, machine reliability, and operations planning.

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Overview

Research, applied work, and current thinking

Research Focus

Sequential decision making, reinforcement learning, simulation, and stochastic optimization.

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Selected Work

Policy-gradient reinforcement learning for dynamic service control in an M/M/1 queue.

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Recent Project

A scalable machine-interference repair-control testbed with speed-dependent failures.

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