{"501981":{"#nid":"501981","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Prof. Theodorou to Lead NSF-Funded Workshop","body":[{"value":"You are in\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EHome\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EProf. Theodorou to lead NSF-funded workshop\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch2 class=\u0022with-tabs\u0022\u003EProf. Theodorou to lead NSF-funded workshop\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cul class=\u0022tabs primary\u0022\u003E\u003Cli class=\u0022active\u0022\u003E\u003Ca class=\u0022active\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/node\/1817\u0022\u003EView\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/node\/1817\/edit\u0022\u003EEdit\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003EAug 17, 2015\u003Ctable width=\u0022250\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EProf. Evangelos Theodorou, the head of the Autonomous Control and Decisions Systems Lab, will host \u0022Learning, Perception, and Control in Robots and Humans\u0022\u0026nbsp;on Aug. 25-26.\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/acds-lab.gatech.edu\/News.html#\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFind out more.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA grant from the National Science Foundation is providing GT-AE professor\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Evangelos Theodorou\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;a platform to further explore control, computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Learning, Perception and Control in Robots and Humans\u0022 is the name of the workshop that Theodorou and his UCLA colleague, Professor\u003Cstrong\u003EStafano Soatto\u003C\/strong\u003E, will host\u0026nbsp; August 25-26 in Washington, DC.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This workshop seeks to advance the core themes underlying these disciplines and their mathematical underpinnings,\u0022 said Theodorou.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETopics will include stochastic analysis and control, the geometry of spatial information and sensory signal processing, and geometric and algebraic structures which arise naturally in robotics, perception and learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This workshop will bring together scientists from different areas of sciences and engineering to brainstorm on two questions related to the representation of sensory information and data, and generalization of decision and control mechanisms in robotics and autonomous systems,\u0022 said Theodorou.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The aforementioned topics will be investigated at the intersection of planning and control, information theory, machine learning, neuroscience and cognitive sciences, and perception. The emphasis of the workshop will be on the mathematical interdependencies and interconnections of these areas based on concepts drawn from differential geometric and topology.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoining them in this two-day exploration will be nearly three dozen noted experts from a variety of fields including machine learning, sensing, \u0026amp; vision; stochastic control \u0026amp; statistical physics; geometric mechanics \u0026amp; control theory, and computational neuroscience \u0026amp;cognitive science.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The\u0026nbsp; workshop will also determine future research directions and identify open questions across the disciplines of control theory, machine learning, perception and cognitive sciences. These future research directions can bring autonomy into a new level and create new areas of investigation at the frontier of robust intelligence and autonomy.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A grant from the National Science Foundation is providing GT-AE professor Evangelos Theodorou a platform to further explore control, computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-17 13:42:02","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:46","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-08-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-08-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"501971":{"id":"501971","type":"image","title":"Prof. Evangelos Theodorou","body":null,"created":"1455904800","gmt_created":"2016-02-19 18:00:00","changed":"1475895261","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:21","alt":"Prof. Evangelos Theodorou","file":{"fid":"204735","name":"theodorou-evangelos2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/theodorou-evangelos2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/theodorou-evangelos2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":9643,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/theodorou-evangelos2_0.jpg?itok=_s5rOyGB"}}},"media_ids":["501971"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"133251","name":"Evangelos Theodorou"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"363","name":"NSF"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}