Shaifalee Saxena

Shaifalee Saxena

Ph.D. student at UNM and Graduate Research Assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory working on reinforcement learning, robotics, and control.

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Improved Robustness of Deep Reinforcement Learning for Control of Time-Varying Systems by Bounded Extremum Seeking

Published in American Control Conference (ACC 2026), 2025

A hybrid reinforcement learning and bounded extremum seeking framework for improving robustness in nonlinear time-varying systems.

Recommended citation: Shaifalee Saxena, Alan Williams, Rafael Fierro, and Alexander Scheinker. (2026). "Improved Robustness of Deep Reinforcement Learning for Control of Time-Varying Systems by Bounded Extremum Seeking." American Control Conference (ACC 2026).
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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation under Distribution Shift with Bounded Extremum Seeking

Published in arXiv preprint, 2026

Improving robotic manipulation performance under distribution shift by combining reinforcement learning with bounded extremum seeking.

Recommended citation: Shaifalee Saxena, Rafael Fierro, and Alexander Scheinker. (2026). "Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation under Distribution Shift with Bounded Extremum Seeking." arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.01142.
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teaching

Teaching experience 1

Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014

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Teaching experience 2

Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015

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