João Carvalho

contact: joao@robot-learning.de

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I am a research assistant at the Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) group from TU Darmstadt, where I recently obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science advised by Jan Peters.
My research interests are developing machine learning and reinforcement learning algorithms for robot manipulation. These include methods that leverage generative models for motion planning and grasping, reinforcement learning methods to solve contact-rich tasks like insertions, or improving policy gradient methods with variance reduction techniques.