Grace (Eun) Go

Hi! I'm Eun Go, but feel free to call me Grace. I'm a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), advised by Professor Arindam Banerjee. My research is supported by the Amazon AI PhD Fellowship. I previously earned my M.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Computer Science and Statistics from UIUC, graduating with highest distinction as a Bronze Tablet Scholar, an honor awarded to the top 3% of the graduating class.

My research focuses on reinforcement learning, with applications to forecasting and sequential decision-making in finance. My recent work studies how RL trading agents can plan and adapt at inference time.

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News

  • 🏆 2026.07: Awarded the Amazon AI PhD Fellowship again!
  • 💼 2026.03: Excited to start an Applied Scientist Internship at Amazon (SCOT-Forecasting & Labs) this May!
  • 🏆 2025.08: Awarded the Amazon AI PhD Fellowship!
  • 🎓 2025.08: Began the Ph.D. program in Computer Science at UIUC, under the advisement of Prof. Arindam Banerjee!
  • 🎓 2025.05: Earned an M.S. in Computer Science from UIUC!
  • 💼 2024.08: Completed a Machine Learning Research Internship at Samsung Research, Seoul R&D Campus!
  • 2023.05: Recognized as a Bronze Tablet Scholar, honoring the top 3% of undergraduate graduates at UIUC!

Research

I'm interested in reinforcement learning and its applications to real-world decision-making problems, particularly in finance and forecasting, where data is noisy and stakes are high.

Plan Before You Trade Plan Before You Trade: Inference-Time Optimization for RL Trading Agents
Eun Go, Rohan Deb, Arindam Banerjee
Under review, 2026
arXiv

We introduce FinPILOT, a plug-in framework that helps pre-trained RL trading agents use price forecasts at deployment to improve returns and risk-adjusted performance, without retraining.

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D. in Computer Science | 2025 – Present
Advisor: Prof. Arindam Banerjee

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
M.S. in Computer Science | 2023 – 2025
Advisor: Prof. Arindam Banerjee

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
B.S. in Computer Science and Statistics | 2020 – 2023
GPA: 4.0 / 4.0 · Bronze Tablet Scholar

Experience

Amazon, Bellevue, WA
Applied Scientist Intern, May – August 2026

Samsung Research, Seoul R&D Campus, South Korea
Machine Learning Research Intern, June – August 2024

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Undergraduate Research Scholar, January – May 2023

NH Investment & Securities, Seoul, South Korea
Big Data Analyst & Software Engineering Intern, June – July 2022

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