Reinforcement Learning has emerged as a useful framework for learning to perform a task optimally from experience in unknown systems. A major problem for such learning algorithms is how to balance optimally the exploration of the system, to gather knowledge,…

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder affecting around 50 million people worldwide. It is characterized by the occurrence of seizures; a transient clinical event caused by synchronous and/or abnormal and excessive neuronal activity in the brain. This thesis presents a…

The rising cost of unplanned hospital readmissions has sparked calls for identifying medical system failures, best practices, and interventions in order to reduce the incidence of avoidable readmission. Readmissions currently account for 18% of total hospital admissions among Medicare patients…