Bio:

Evangelos Theodorou earned his bachelor in Electrical and Computer Engineering form the Technical University of Crete (Greece) at 2001. During the last two years of his undergrad studies, he worked as machine vision engineer for European research projects on industrial vision. In 2003, he got his master's in industrial engineering from the Technical University of Crete. In his graduate studies back in Greece he was working as research assistant in the Dynamic Systems and Simulation Laboratory(DSSL). In his work in DSSL he designed, tested and evaluated stochastic optimal controllers applied to traffic urban networks. In 2004 he was accepted by the Computer Science and Engineering Department in the University of Minnesota USA. During his graduate studies in Minnesota he was research assistant in the Computational Vision and Action Lab. After getting his second master's from the University of Minnesota, he joined the Computational Learning and Motor Control Lab in spring 2007 and he is currently working towards his Ph.D under the supervision of Prof. Stefan Schaal.

Research Interests:

Stochastic Optimal Control and Estimation, Inverse Optimal Control, Robotics, Systems Neuroscience

Address:

Ronald Tutor Hall, RTH-417
3710 S. Mc.Clintock Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90089

Mailing Address:

Evangelos Theodorou
c/o Laura Lopez, Rm. 05
University of Southern California
Hedco Neurosciences Building, HNB-05
3641 Watt Way
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520, USA

Email:

Phone:

(213) 821 6370

Fax:

(213) 740 1510

Publications

Mistry, M.,Theodorou, E., & Schaal, S (2008). Resolving redundancy in joint space vs. end-effector space force fields, 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement.
[Keywords: redundancy resolution, motor control, motor learning, psychophysics]
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Mistry, M.;Theodorou, E.;Hoffmann, H.;Schaal, S. (2008). The dual role of uncertainty in force field learning, Abstracts of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of Neural Control of Movement (NCM).
[Keywords: computational motor control, optimal control, redundancy resolution, internal model]
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Hoffmann, H.;Theodorou, E.;Schaal, S. (2008). Behavioral experiments on reinforcement learning in human motor control, Abstracts of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of Neural Control of Movement (NCM).
[Keywords: computational motor control, optimal control, reinforcement learning]
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Mistry, M., Theodorou, E., Hoffmann, H., Schaal, S. (2007). Uncertain 3D Force Fields in Reaching Movements: Do Humans Favor Robust or Average Permormance?, Abstracts of the 37th Meeting of the Society of Neuroscience.
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Ting, J.; Theodorou, E.; Schaal, S. (2007). Learning an Outlier-Robust Kalman Filter, European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2007), pp.748-756, Springer.
[Keywords: automatic outlier detection, kalman filter, system dynamics, weighted least squares, bayesian statistical learning]
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Ting, J.; Theodorou, E.; Schaal, S. (2007). Learning an Outlier-Robust Kalman Filter, CLMC Technical Report: TR-CLMC-2007-1.
[Keywords: automatic outlier detection, kalman filter, system dynamics, weighted least squares, bayesian statistical learning]
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Theodorou, E; Peters, J; Schaal, S. (2007). Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Control of Arm Movements, Abstracts of the 37st Meeting of the Society of Neuroscience..
[Keywords: optimal control,reinforcement learning, arm movements]
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Peters, J.;Theodorou, E.;Schaal, S. (2007). Policy gradient methods for machine learning, INFORMS Conference of the Applied Probability Society.
[Keywords: policy gradient methods, reinforcement learning, simulation-optimization]
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Ting, J.;Theodorou, E.;Schaal, S. (2007). A Kalman filter for robust outlier detection, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robotics Systems (IROS 2007).
[Keywords: kalman filter, variational bayes, outliers]
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Theodorou, E. (2006). Statistical Learning of LQG controllers, Technical Report-2006-1.
[Keywords: lqg controllers, statistical learning, system identification]
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Theodorou, E. (2005). Linear and Nonlinear Estimation models applied to Hemodynamic Model, Technical Report-2005-1.
[Keywords: stochastic estimation, kalman filters, shaping filters, hemodynamic model]
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Hidaka,Y; Theodorou, E. (2005). Parametric and Non-Parametric approaches for nonlinear tracking of moving objects, Technical Report-2005-1.
[Keywords: stochastic estimation, kalman filters, particle filters, tracking.]
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Invited Reviewer:

    NIPS 2007, Journal of Neurophysiology, Neural Networks

Quotes

Ανθρωπος ψυχη και σωμα συμμετρον

Artistic

Music instruments: Kaval,Accordeon and Saxophone

Sports

Triathlon