Agents of Change: Self-Evolving LLM Agents for Strategic Planning

Agents of Change: Self-Evolving LLM Agents for Strategic Planning

Nikolas Belle, Dakota Barnes, Alfonso Amayuelas, Ivan Bercovich, Xin Eric Wang, William Wang

Preprint - Research on continual learning LLM agents that can self-improve their strategic planning abilities through a separation of autonomous environment discovery and strategy evolution in the board game Catan.

GauchoSat (Senior Capstone)

Nanosatellite for collecting real-time peformance data on next-gen solar cells.

Multilingual LLM Bias Evaluation Framework

Uncovers how political bias in multilingual LLMs varies across both models and languages, revealing challenges in bias detection and mitigation across linguistic contexts.

Encrypted Video Classifier

Trained a neural network to fingerprint streamed Youtube videos using only public, flow-level network data.

Fault Tolerant Distributed LLM Service

Platform that coordinates distributed LLM querying using Multi-Paxos.

Mountain Bike Trail Grade Monitor

Real-time trail grade monitor that uses Kalman filtering and exponential smoothing to provide mountain bikers accurate incline tracking over rugged terrain.

Smart Aperture Control System

Built a responsive temperature regulator by interfacing STM32 microcontroller with various peripherals.

UCSB Computer Engineering Spotlight

Featured in UCSB CE Student Spotlight

Highlighted by UC Santa Barbara's Computer Engineering department for academic achievements and innovative project work in machine learning and software systems.

Nik Belle Builds Community, Creativity and Code at UCSB

Featured in The Current

Profiled by UC Santa Barbara's The Current for community leadership, creative projects, and contributions to the engineering and technology programs on campus.