Larkin Liu is an operations research (OR) & machine learning (ML) specialist, currently completing a PhD in Operations Research under the advisement of Stefan Minner at the Technical University of Munich.  Today Larkin joined us to present *An Extensible and Modular Design and Implementation of Monte Carlo Tree Search for the JVM*, a recent preprint he authored with Jun Tao Luo (MS student in CS at Carnegie Mellon; also in attendance at this talk).  The paper is exactly what it sounds like, and the presentation was a lot of fun, with clear mathematical background, a solid foundation in software engineering principles, and some impressive code demos.    
- Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10061 
- Larkin: https://larkz.github.io/ 
- Jun: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jun-tao-luo
- Video: https://youtu.be/bVpUlJU-piA