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Paweł Wawrzyński, postdoc
Control & Systems Division
Biometrics & Machine Learning Team
Institute of Control & Computation Engineering
Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology
Warsaw University of Technology

Background
  • 2005 - PhD in Computer Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Control and Computational Engineering. In my thesis I introduced a family Actor-Critic algorithms of Reinforcement Learning based on batch estimation.
  • 2004 - MS in Economics, Warsaw University, Faculty of Economics. In my thesis I analyzed an impact of shocks and institutions on labor market efficiency.
  • 2001 - MS in Computer Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology. The subject of my thesis was the problem of determining of the optimal policy. I combined classical methods, like Policy Iteration, and methods stemming from Artificial Intelligence.


    • Scientific interests
  • Artificial intelligence: reinforcement learning, neural networks.
  • Cognitive science: Modeling of memory, consiousness, and perception.
  • Automation: adaptive control, learning robots.


    • Research
    The goal of my research is to develop techniques of automatic gathering of procedural and descriptive knowledge. I work in the field of machine learning, in particular reinforcement learning. The theoretical justification of algorithms I develop lays in control theory and probability theory. My work is mainly inspired by psychology (which is a kind of my hobby). However, in contrary to numerous research studies, I do not try to discover mechanisms that govern natural adaptation and perception. Instead, I develop methods that could be used by artificial intelligent entities. Currently I work on algorithms of reinforcement learning in continuous state/action spaces. I tailor them to be immediately applicable to control systems training.

    Others
    International patent application no. PCT/PL 01/00097, "Method for Determination of the Minimum Distance between Frequency Channels within Pre-selected Base Station Calls".

    After hours
    Psychology, psychological novels, spy novels, civilization, politics, hang gliding, extreme sports.

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