Research Assistant

E-Mail	ruecksti@in.tum.de
Room	MI 00.09.064
Phone	+49.89.289.17850
Fax	+49.89.289.18107
Address	Institut für Informatik VI Technische Universität München Boltzmannstraße 3 85748 Garching bei München Germany
Homepage	http://www.rueckstiess.net/

Interests

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, reinforcement learning, policy gradients, artificial curiosity, robotics,
(recurrent) neural networks, artificial awareness, theory of mind

Curriculum Vitæ

Apr. 2006 - Today	Technische Universität München PhD Student at the chair of Robotics and Embedded Systems under Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber in the Machine Learning & Cognitive Robotics Group "CogBotLab".
Oct. 1999 - Mar. 2006	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Study of Bioinformatics with Emphasis on Robotics and Cognition
Aug. 2002 - Sep. 2003	University of Oregon, USA One year exchange program with courses in Computer Science and Biology
1989 - 1998	Gymnasium Weingarten High school with main courses in Mathematics and Chemistry

Publications

[1]	Frank Sehnke, Christian Osendorfer, Thomas Rückstieß, Alex Graves, Jan Peters, and Jürgen Schmidhuber. Parameter-exploring policy gradients. Neural Networks, 23(2), March 2010. (.pdf )
[2]	Thomas Rückstieß, Martin Felder, and Jürgen Schmidhuber. State-Dependent Exploration for policy gradient methods. In W. Daelemans et al., editor, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases 2008, Part II, LNAI 5212, pages 234-249, 2008. (.pdf )
[3]	Thomas Rückstieß, Martin Felder, Frank Sehnke, and Jürgen Schmidhuber. Robot learning with state-dependent exploration. In 1st International Workshop on Cognition for Technical Systems, 2008. (.pdf )
[4]	Frank Sehnke, Christian Osendorfer, Thomas Rückstieß, Alex Graves, Jan Peters, and Jürgen Schmidhuber. Policy gradients with parameter-based exploration for control. In J. Koutnik V. Kurkova, R. Neruda, editor, Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2008, Part I, LNCS 5163, pages 387-396. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2008. (.pdf )
[5]	Frank Sehnke, Thomas Rückstieß, Martin Felder, and Jürgen Schmidhuber. Parametric policy gradients for robotics. In 1st International Workshop on Cognition for Technical Systems, 2008, 2008. (.pdf )