Matt Motoki
I am a second-year Ph.D. student in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at the University of Washington, advised by Baosen Zhang. My research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning, power systems, and sustainability. In the past, I’ve worked in industry as a data scientist.
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Projects
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Cell Division: A Biology-Inspired Board Game with an AI Opponent
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Cell Division is a strategy-based board game. Players take turns placing their cells. A player’s cells divide when they connect with each other. The score is equal to the total number of cells. The game ends when the board is full. The winner is the player with the most cells.
Game / GitHub
Cell Division is a strategy-based board game. Players take turns placing their cells. A player’s cells divide when they connect with each other. The score is equal to the total number of cells. The game ends when the board is full. The winner is the player with the most cells.
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Cell Collection: Variations of Cell Division
Game / GitHub
This is a collection of games inspired by Cell Division. If a player places a new cell adjacent to one or more of their existing cells, then their existing cell(s) extend to include the new cell. This is a work in progress and I plan to implement various scoring mechanisms.
Game / GitHub
This is a collection of games inspired by Cell Division. If a player places a new cell adjacent to one or more of their existing cells, then their existing cell(s) extend to include the new cell. This is a work in progress and I plan to implement various scoring mechanisms.
Hawaii Machine Learning Meetup
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I helped to create the Hawaii Machine Learning Meetup with the goal of increasing ML adoption in Hawaii. As an organizer, I grew the community to 250+ members and helped to lead networking events and ML study groups.
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I helped to create the Hawaii Machine Learning Meetup with the goal of increasing ML adoption in Hawaii. As an organizer, I grew the community to 250+ members and helped to lead networking events and ML study groups.
Competitions
In my free time, I enjoy competing in machine learning competitions. I am a competitions grandmaster on Kaggle.
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6th Place in the Enefit - Predict Energy Behavior of Prosumers challenge (2024)
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Team Members: Matt Motoki. Prize Money: $5,000 -
1st Place in the NeurIPS CityLearn Challenge - Forecasting Track (2023)
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Team Members: Matt Motoki. Prize Money: $1,000 -
2nd Place in the Net Load Forecasting Prize (2023)
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Team Members: Matt Motoki. Prize Money: $150,000 -
Phase 1 Winner in the Digitizing Utilities Prize (2023)
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Team Members: Matt Motoki, Sorapong Khongnawang, Daniel Tabas, Baosen Zhang, Olin Lagon. Prize Money: $75,000 -
2nd Place in the NeurIPS CityLearn Challenge (2022)
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Team Members: Matt Motoki, Sorapong Khongnawang. Prize Money: $5,000 -
Runner Up in the Solar Forecasting Prize (2022)
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Team Members: Matt Motoki. Prize Money: $25,000 -
Winner in the Recidivism Forecasting Challenge (2021)
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Team Members: Matt Motoki, Marifel Barbasa, Sorapong Khongnawang. Prize Money: $48,500 -
1st Place in the Great Energy Predictor III (2019)
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Team Members: Isamu Yamashita, Matt Motoki. Prize Money: $10,000
Generative Art
If I had more time, I'd like to create more generative art. Here are a few pieces I've made:
Light Rain
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Vertical lines of color fall softly, resembling the delicate, shimmering appearance of light rain. This piece was inspired by Marius Watz's Blocker series. The code draws semi-transparent rectangles with colors determined by Perlin noise and a blend of two color palettes.
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Vertical lines of color fall softly, resembling the delicate, shimmering appearance of light rain. This piece was inspired by Marius Watz's Blocker series. The code draws semi-transparent rectangles with colors determined by Perlin noise and a blend of two color palettes.
Shell
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This is likely the first generative art piece I created. It's a simple connect-the-dots program that generates a spiral pattern resembling a shell.
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This is likely the first generative art piece I created. It's a simple connect-the-dots program that generates a spiral pattern resembling a shell.