Praveen Palanisamy, is a masters in robotic systems development from Carnegie Mellon University. He works on advancing AI for autonomous systems, as a senior AI engineer with Microsoft. In the past, he has developed AI algorithms for autonomous vehicles using deep reinforcement learning, worked with startups and in academia to build autonomous robots and intelligent systems. He is the inventor of more than 13 patents on learning methods for autonomous driving. He is the author of Hands-On Intelligent Agents with OpenAI Gym, which provides a step-by-step guide to develop Deep RL agents to solve complex problems.