Michael Munje is a PhD student at The University of Texas Austin, where he is advised by Peter Stone and whose research focus is in the intersection of reinforcement learning and robotics. He received an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2022 and received his BS in Computer Science from California State University Northridge in 2019. He is the receipient of the GEM PhD Fellowship and has interned for the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Microsoft, and IBM Research.