ROBOT LEARNING LABORATORY - Key Persons

Ahmed Hendawy

ah..@tu-darmstadt.de

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Student, Research Assistant

Ahmed Hendawy joined the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group at TU Darmstadt as a Ph.D. Student in April 2022. He is working on Multi-Task and Meta Reinforcement Learning, supervised by Dr. Carlo D'Eramo (as part of the LiteRL research group). Ahmed Hendawy has a master's degree in Information Technology from the University of Stuttgart, with a specialization in Computer Engineering. In 2019, Ahmed graduated from the German University in Cairo (GUC) with a bachelor's degree in Mechatronics Engineering.

Aiswarya Menon

Aiswarya Menon joined the Intelligent Autonomous System lab on Ausgust, 1st, 2022 as a PhD student. Her research will amongst others include robust and amazing policy search methods, beyond human skill learning, human-robot interaction and intention learning.

Alexander Imani Cowen-Rivers

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Research Interests

Alexander I. Cowen-Rivers is a PhD student in the Intelligent Autonomous Systems group working on Reinforcement Learning and Bayesian Optimisation. Alexander I. Cowen-Rivers joined the lab in November 2019 after receiving his MSc in Machine Learning & Data Science from University College London in October 2018. During his MSc research, Alexander worked under the supervision of Prof. Sebastian Riedel, and Prof. Tim Rocktäschel focusing particularly on Knowledge Graphs and Variational Inference.

Alexandros Paraschos

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Research Associate in Cognitive Robotics Research Centre

Alexandros Paraschos joined the Intelligent Autonomous System (IAS) lab of Technische Universitaet Darmstadt at February 2012. There, he works on Robot Learning of Complex Motor Skills under the supervision of Gerhard Neumann and Jan Peters Previously, Alexandros has been a research associate in Cognitive Robotics Research Centre (CRRC), at University of Wales, Newport, from January 2011 working with Torbjoern Dahl. Alexandros finished his studies in Electronic and Computer Engineering at Technical University of Crete. There, under the supervision of Michail Lagoudakis, he received his diploma thesis: "Monas: A Flexible Software Architecture for Robotic Agents" Alexandros specializes in movement representation for motor skills in humanoid robots. For humanoid robots, the ability to generate and execute complex motor plans under unstructured environments is one of the major challenges that the community faces nowadays. The lack of this ability is severely limiting robotic applications and forces as to keep robots in structured environments away from any human interaction. Alexandros aims to create the movement representation that will allow robots to share our environment, but until then he focuses on creating movement representations that not only allow composing complex robot skills out of elemental movements, but also have extensive generalization capabilities. From June 2013, he participates in the European Union project CoDyCo

Ali Younes

al..@tu-darmstadt.de

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Student, Research Assistant

Andreas Look

an..@robot-learning.de

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Research Interests

Andreas Look joined the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group as an external Ph.D. student in cooperation with the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence in November 2019. In his Ph.D. research, he is working on hybrid machine learning incorporating physical priors. Prior to this, Andreas worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machinery in Stuttgart. There he investigated methods for connecting computational fluid mechanics with machine learning. Andreas received his Master degree in Power Engineering from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Aryaman Reddi

ar..@tu-darmstadt.de

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Student, Research Assistant

Aryaman Reddi joined the Intelligent Autonomous Systems lab in August 2022 as a PhD student. His research is focused on multi-agent reinforcement learning systems and the relationship between practical agent performance and theoretical analysis. He is supervised by Dr Carlo D'Eramo of the LiteRL group. He read Information and Computer Engineering at the University of Cambridge, where he received his BA and MEng. His Master's thesis, titled "Deep Q-Learning for Congruent Non-Dominated Game Strategies", investigated the generalisability of deep Q-learning agents under bounded rationality, and was supervised by Professor Glenn Vinnicombe of the Control Group.

Boris Belousov

bo..@tu-darmstadt.de

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Student, Research and Teaching Assistant

Boris Belousov joined IAS as a PhD student in February 2016. He holds a MSc degree in Electrical Engineering from FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg with a major in Communications and Multimedia Engineering and a BSc degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with a specialization in Electrical Engineering and Cybernetics.