Relevant Coursework

Machine Learning/Reinforcement Learning: Artificial Intelligent (CS221), Machine Learning (CS229), Statistical Learning Theory (CS229T), Reinforcement Learning (CS234 and MS&E 338), etc.

Optimization/Control: Convex Optimization 1 & 2, Introduction to Optimization Theory, Large-scale Numerical Optimization, Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control, Linear Dynamical System, etc.

Information Theory: Information Theory, Universal Schemes in Information Theory, Network Information Theory.

Statistics/Mathematics: Theory of Probability A, Theory of Statistics B, Numerical Linear Algebra, Real Analysis 1&2, Lebesque Integral, Differential Geometry, etc.