Jivitesh Sharma is a PhD Research Fellow at the University of Agder, Norway and part of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR) group. He is doing his research on Deep Neural Networks for Fire emergency systems. His research entails Computer Vision tasks like Image Classification, Instance Segmentation and Object Detection and Deep Reinforcement Learning like Q-learning and Policy Gradients. Apart from his PhD, he is also working with Agder Energi AS, which is a renewable energy production company in Norway, to optimize hydropower generation using meta-heuristic methods and genetic algorithms.