{"id":57,"date":"2019-11-29T15:06:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T15:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/matthew-darlington\/mesmerize\/"},"modified":"2022-07-14T10:56:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T10:56:25","slug":"mesmerize","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/matthew-darlington\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-label=\"Features\" data-id=\"features--1\" data-export-id=\"features-13-card-bordered\" data-category=\"features\" class=\"features-13 content-section content-section-spacing\" id=\"features-1\" style=\"background-image: none\"><div class=\"gridContainer\"> <div class=\"row text-center\"><div class=\"section-title-col\" data-type=\"column\">  <p class=\"lead\">I am Matthew Darlington, a PhD student in STOR-i based at Lancaster University.&nbsp;I graduated from the University of Warwick with a Bsc in Mathematics in 2019 and then achieved a MRes in Statistics and Operational Research from Lancaster in 2020.\n<br><br>My PhD is entitled \u201cThe Border Patrol Game\u201d and I am supervised by Kevin Glazebrook, David Leslie and Robert Shone from Lancaster Univeristy, and Roberto Szeechtman from the Naval Postgraduate School in California, USA.<br>\n<br>My work involves using Markov decision processes, stochastic games and reinforcement learning to try and model the optimal way to patrol borders against intelligent opponents.<br><br> Here you can find out more about me, the department and what I\u2019ve been up to.<\/p><\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"row spaced-cols content-center-sm center-sm\" data-type=\"row\">   <div class=\"col-sm-4 col-md-12 \"> <div class=\"card bordered y-move\" data-type=\"column\">    <\/div> <\/div><\/div> <\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Matthew Darlington, a PhD student in STOR-i based at Lancaster University.&nbsp;I graduated from the University of Warwick with a Bsc in Mathematics in 2019 and then achieved a MRes in Statistics and Operational Research from Lancaster in 2020. My PhD is entitled \u201cThe Border Patrol Game\u201d and I am supervised by Kevin Glazebrook,&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/matthew-darlington\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/homepage.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-57","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/matthew-darlington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/matthew-darlington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/matthew-darlington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/matthew-darlington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/matthew-darlington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/matthew-darlington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/matthew-darlington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/matthew-darlington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}