Megnath Ramesh

Waterloo ON, Canada

I am currently pursuing my Ph.D. thesis on robot path planning and replanning algorithms for coverage tasks. My current research focuses on combinatorial planning algorithms with approximation guarantees for robots in uncertain environments.

More recently, my interests are in using learning-based algorithms for robot planning under uncertainty, mainly reinforcement learning (RL) and diffusion policies.

Before my Ph.D., I obtained my B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta. During my undergrad, I worked on side-projects involving robotics, specifically towards automating dangerous tasks. Two notable projects were developed at large student hackathons and won top-three prizes.

I am currently looking for postdoctoral employment as a researcher/developer in robotics and AI.

PhysRev

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?

A. Einstein , B. Podolsky , and N. Rosen

Phys. Rev., May 1935

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In a complete theory there is an element corresponding to each element of reality. A sufficient condition for the reality of a physical quantity is the possibility of predicting it with certainty, without disturbing the system. In quantum mechanics in the case of two physical quantities described by non-commuting operators, the knowledge of one precludes the knowledge of the other. Then either (1) the description of reality given by the wave function in quantum mechanics is not complete or (2) these two quantities cannot have simultaneous reality. Consideration of the problem of making predictions concerning a system on the basis of measurements made on another system that had previously interacted with it leads to the result that if (1) is false then (2) is also false. One is thus led to conclude that the description of reality as given by a wave function is not complete.

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