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 Perception and Action Lab (CPAB). After getting his second master's from the University of Minnesota, he joined the Computer Science Dept at USC in spring 2007. He currently has a joint appointment with the Computational Learning and Motor Control Lab in Computer Sciene Dept and the Brain and Body Dynamics Lab (BBD) in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy.

Research Interests:

Stochastic Optimal Control and Estimation, Robotics,Biomechanics and 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

Theodorou, E.;Buchli, J.;Schaal, S. (2009). Path integral stochastic optimal control for rigid body dynamics, IEEE International Symposium on Approximate Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL2009).
[Keywords: reinforcement learning, optimal control, path integrals, stochastic systems]
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Hoffmann, H.;Theodorou, E.;Schaal, S. (2009). Human optimization strategies under reward feedback, Abstracts of Neural Control of Movement Conference (NCM 2009).
[Keywords: computational motor control, reinforcement leanring, human subjects]
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Evangelos A. Theodorou and Francisco J. Valero-Cuevas (2009). Incorporating Muscle Activation-Contraction dynamics to an optimal control framework for finger movements, Abstracts of Neural Control of Movement Conference (NCM 2009).
[Keywords: computational motor control,optimal control, biomechanics]
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Theodorou, E.;Hoffmann, H.;Mistry, M.;Schaal, S. (2008). Computational model for movement learning under uncertain cost, Abstracts of the Society of Neuroscience Meeting (SFN 2008).
[Keywords: computational motor control, motor planning, optimization, reinforcement learning]
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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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Heiko Hoffmann, Evangelos Theodorou, and Stefan Schaal (2008). Optimization strategies in human reinforcement learning, Advances in Computational Motor Control VII, Symposium at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Washington DC, 2008.
[Keywords: reinforcement learning, motor control, psychophysics]
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M. Mistry, E. A.Theodorou, G. Liaw, T. Yoshioka, S. Schaal, M. Kawato (2008). Adaptation to a sub-optimal desired trajectory, Advances in Computational Motor Control VII, Symposium at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Washington DC, 2008.
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Mistry, M.;Theodorou, E.;Liaw, G.;Yoshioka, T.;Schaal, S.;Kawato, M. (2008). An investigation of optimality in reaching movements with an acceleration based force field, Abstracts of the Society of Neuroscience Meeting (SFN 2008).
[Keywords: computational motor control, motor planning, optimization, force fields]
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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 Performance?, 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

    NIPS 2008,IEEE Transactions On Robotics & Automation,IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement

Quotes

Ανθρωπος ψυχη και σωμα συμμετρον

Artistic

Music instruments: Kaval,Accordeon and Saxophone

Sports

Triathlon