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Jürgen Schmidhuber's Team at IDSIA & USI & TUM (2010)
In Alphabetical Order: Two Seniors. A Dozen Postdocs. A Dozen PhD Students. One Visiting Professor. Still hiring!
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Dr. Dan Ciresan (Romania)
Postdoctoral Researcher at IDSIA; Handwriting Recognition
Giuseppe Cuccu (Italy)
PhD student of Dr. Faustino Gomez at IDSIA; Evolutionary Computation
Somayeh Danafar (Iran)
PhD student at IDSIA; Support Vector Machines, Machine Learning
Dr. Alexander Förster (Germany)
Postdoctoral Researcher at IDSIA; Robotics, RoboCup World Champion 2004 (team leader, fast league)
Kail Frank (USA)
PhD student at IDSIA; 3D-Modeling, Adaptive Robotics
Matteo Gagliolo (Italy)
PhD student at IDSIA; Algorithm Selection, Algorithm Portfolios, Survival Analysis, Learning Theory
Dr. Linus Gisslen (Sweden)
Postdoctoral Researcher at IDSIA; Physics & Machine Learning
Dr. Tobias Glasmachers (Germany)
Postdoctoral Researcher at IDSIA; Support Vector Machines, Applied Mathematics
Dr. Faustino Gomez (USA / Spain)
Senior Researcher at IDSIA; Evolutionary Computation, Recurrent Networks, Optimization
Dr. Alex Graves (Scotland / USA)
Postdoctoral Researcher (ex-IDSIA) at the TUM Cogbotlab; Supervised Recurrent Neural Networks
Dr. Vincent Graziano (USA)
Postdoctoral Researcher at IDSIA; Applied Mathematics, Reinforcement Learning
Prof. Marcus Hutter (Germany)
Visiting Professor at IDSIA (from University of Canberra, ex-IDSIA); Pioneer of Universal Artificial Intelligence Theory, Learning Theory
Dr. Jan Koutnik (Czechia)
Postdoc at IDSIA; Evolutionary Recurrent Neural Networks, Fast Weights, Self-Reference
Correy Kowall (USA)
Master / PhD student at IDSIA; Self-Replicators, Creative Agents, Fast Nets, Unsupervised Learning
Sergey Kardash (Russia) (until December 2010)
PhD student at IDSIA; Machine Learning, Probability Theory, Applied Math
Varun Kompella (India, to arrive)
PhD student at IDSIA; Machine Learning, Adaptive Robotics, Humanoids
Juxi Leitner (Austria)
PhD student at IDSIA; Machine Learning, Adaptive Robotics, Humanoids
Dr. Matt Luciw (USA)
Postdoctoral Researcher at IDSIA; Unsupervised Learning, Biologically Plausible Reinforcement Learning
Dr. Ueli Meier (Switzerland)
Postdoctoral Researcher at IDSIA; Handwriting Recognition, Seismology, Geophysics
Hung Ngo (Vietnam)
PhD student at IDSIA; Reinforcement Learning, Signal Processing, Applied Math
Jonathan Masci (Italy)
PhD student at IDSIA; Machine Learning
Dr. Davide Migliore (Italy)
Postdoctoral Researcher at IDSIA; Computer Vision, 3D Modeling, Mobile Robots
Christian Osendorfer (Germany)
PhD student at the TUM Cogbotlab; Deep Networks, Unsupervised Learning
Dr. Leo Pape (Holland)
Postdoctoral Researcher at IDSIA; Reinforcement Learning, Recurrent Networks, Artificial Curiosity
Dr. Mark Ring (USA)
Visiting Senior Researcher at IDSIA; Hierachical Reinforcement Learning, Cumulative Learning
Thomas Rückstiess (Germany)
PhD student at the TUM Cogbotlab; Reinforcement Learning, Adaptive Robotics, Artificial Curiosity
Ulrich Rührmair (Germany)
Project Leader at TUM Cogbotlab, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and International Graduate School of Science and Engineering (IGSSE); Physical Cryptography
Tom Schaul (Luxembourg)
PhD student at IDSIA; Reinforcement Learning, Policy Gradients, Active Learning, Recurrent Networks
Dr. Bas Steunebrink (Holland)
Postdoctoral Researcher at IDSIA; Logics, Avatars, Reinforcement Learning, Recurrent Networks
Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber (Germany)
Director of the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA; Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Univ. Lugano; Professor SUPSI, Switzerland; Head of Cognitive Robotics at TU Munich, Germany
Frank Sehnke (Germany)
PhD student at the TUM Cogbotlab; Robot Learning, Policy Gradients, Physical Cryptography
Dr. Tyler Streeter (USA, to arrive)
Postdoctoral Researcher (2010) at IDSIA; Brain-inspired Cognitive Architectures, Kernel Mixtures, Reinforcement Learning, Artificial Curiosity, Physically Realistic Simulations
Sun Yi (China)
PhD student at IDSIA; Reinforcement Learning, Signal Processing, Applied Math
RECENT ALUMNI of 2009
In 2009, some of Schmidhuber's postdocs accepted professorships abroad:
Dr. Jörg Conradt (Germany)
Ex-Postdoc of IDSIA; now Professor at TU Munich
Dr. Jan Unkelbach (Germany)
Ex-Postdoc of IDSIA; now Professor at Harvard
Dr. Julian Togelius (Sweden)
Ex-Postdoc of IDSIA; now Professor at IT Univ. Copenhagen
In 2009, one of Schmidhuber's PhD students accepted an external postdoc offer:
Daan Wierstra (Holland)
Ex-PhD student at IDSIA (Reinforcement Learning, Policy Gradients, Recurrent Networks); now postdoc at EPFL
OTHER RESEARCHERS AT IDSIA
Many additional IDSIA researchers are working in the group of Schmidhuber's Co-Director Prof. Luca Maria Gambardella.