Jan Peters is a full professor (W3) for Intelligent Autonomous Systems at the Computer Science Department of the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt and at the same time a senior research scientist and group leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, where he heads the interdepartmental Robot Learning Group. Jan Peters has received the Dick Volz Best 2007 US PhD Thesis Runner-Up Award, the 2012 Robotics: Science & Systems - Early Career Spotlight, the 2013 INNS Young Investigator Award, and the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society‘s 2013 Early Career Award. In 2015, he was awarded an ERC Starting Grant.
Jan Peters has studied Computer Science, Electrical, Mechanical and Control Engineering at TU Munich and FernUni Hagen in Germany, at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the University of Southern California (USC), and been an visiting researcher at the ATR Telecomunications Research Center in Japan. He has received four Master‘s degrees in these disciplines as well as a Computer Science Ph.D. from USC.
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Jan Peters is a full professor at Darmstadt University of Technology (TU Darmstadt) heading the intelligent systems group while still being affliated with the MPI heading the robot learning lab.
Jan Peters joined the Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in April 2007 as a research scientist. Before joining MPI, Jan Peters studied Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering. He graduated from the University of Hagen in 2000 with a Diplom-Informatiker (German M.Sc. in Computer Science) and from Munich University of Technology in 2001 with a Diplom-Ingenieur in Electrical Engineering (German M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering). In 2000-2001, he spent two semesters as visiting student at National University of Singapore. In 2002, he completed a M.Sc. in Computer Science and, in 2005, a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering both from USC. He joined USC's Computer Science Ph.D. program and the CLMC Lab in Fall 2001. Jan Peters has been a visiting research student at the Department of Robotics at the German Aerospace Research Center in Germany, at Siemens Advanced Engineering in Singapore and at the Department of Humanoid Robotics and Computational Neuroscience at the Advanded Telecommunication Research (ATR) Center in Japan. Jan Peters graduated from University of Southern California with a Ph.D. in Computer Science in March 2007. He remains affiliated with the CLMC Lab as an adjunct researcher.
More information on Jan Peters can be found on his private homepage.
Reinforcement learning ranks among the biggest challenges for machine learning. Just controlling a known dynamical system is hard on its own - interacting with an unknown system poses even harder decision problems, such as the infamous exploration-exploitation tradeoff. Most research in this area is still confined to theoretical ana...
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Paraschos, A., Neumann, G., Peters, J.
In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS), pages: 477-483, IEEE, 13th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2013 (inproceedings)
Daniel, C., Neumann, G., Peters, J.
In Proceedings of the 2013 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2013), pages: 1-8, 2013 (inproceedings)
van Hoof, H., Krömer, O., Peters, J.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS), pages: 169-176, IEEE, 13th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2013 (inproceedings)
Wang, Z., Mülling, K., Deisenroth, M., Ben Amor, H., Vogt, D., Schölkopf, B., Peters, J.
International Journal of Robotics Research, 32(7):841-858, 2013 (article)
Kupcsik, A., Deisenroth, M., Peters, J., Neumann, G.
In Proceedings of the 27th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2013), (Editors: desJardins, M. and Littman, M. L.), AAAI Press, 2013 (inproceedings)
Englert, P., Paraschos, A., Peters, J., Deisenroth, M.
Adaptive Behavior Journal, 21(5):388-403, 2013 (article)
Peters, J., Kober, J., Mülling, K., Kroemer, O., Neumann, G.
In Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning, Part III (ECML 2013), LNCS 8190, pages: 627-631, (Editors: Blockeel, H.,Kersting, K., Nijssen, S., and Zelezný, F.), Springer, 2013 (inproceedings)
Daniel, C., Neumann, G., Peters, J.
In Proceedings of 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013), 2013 (inproceedings)
Deisenroth, M., Neumann, G., Peters, J.
Foundations and Trends in Robotics, 2(1-2):1-142, 2013 (article)
Kober, J., Bagnell, D., Peters, J.
International Journal of Robotics Research, 32(11):1238–1274, 2013 (article)
Neumann, G., Kupcsik, A., Deisenroth, M., Peters, J.
In Proceedings of the 27th AAAI 2013, Workshop on Intelligent Robotic Systems (AAAI 2013), 2013 (inproceedings)
Englert, P., Paraschos, A., Peters, J., Deisenroth, M.
In Proceedings of 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013), pages: 1922-1927, 2013 (inproceedings)
Deisenroth, M., Szepesvári, C., Peters, J.
pages: 173, JMLR, European Workshop On Reinforcement Learning, EWRL, 2013 (proceedings)
Ben Amor, H., Vogt, D., Ewerton, M., Berger, E., Jung, B., Peters, J.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2013), pages: 3257-3264, IEEE, 2013 (inproceedings)
Peters, J., Kober, J., Mülling, K., Kroemer, O., Neumann, G.
In Proceedings of the 16th Yale Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems, 2013 (inproceedings)
Paraschos, A., Daniel, C., Peters, J., Neumann, G.
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 26, pages: 2616-2624, (Editors: C.J.C. Burges and L. Bottou and M. Welling and Z. Ghahramani and K.Q. Weinberger), 27th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2013 (inproceedings)
Bócsi, B., Hennig, P., Csató, L., Peters, J.
In pages: 259 -264, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2012 (inproceedings)
Kroemer, O., Ugur, E., Oztop, E., Peters, J.
In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2012), pages: 2605-2610, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2012 (inproceedings)
Daniel, C., Neumann, G., Peters, J.
In Fifteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 22, pages: 273-281, JMLR Proceedings, (Editors: Lawrence, N. D. and Girolami, M.), JMLR.org, AISTATS, April 2012 (inproceedings)
Lampert, C., Peters, J.
Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, 7(1):31-41, March 2012 (article)
Kroemer, O., Ben Amor, H., Ewerton, M., Peters, J.
In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots , pages: 680-685, IEEE, HUMANOIDS, 2012 (inproceedings)
Sigaud, O., Peters, J.
In Encyclopedia of the sciences of learning, (Editors: Seel, N.M.), Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2012 (inbook)
Wang, Z., Deisenroth, M., Ben Amor, H., Vogt, D., Schölkopf, B., Peters, J.
In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems VIII, pages: 8, R:SS, 2012 (inproceedings)
Deisenroth, M., Peters, J.
In The 10th European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL), 2012 (inproceedings)
Kober, J., Wilhelm, A., Oztop, E., Peters, J.
Autonomous Robots, 33(4):361-379, 2012 (article)
Meyer, T., Peters, J., Brötz, D., Zander, T., Schölkopf, B., Soekadar, S., Grosse-Wentrup, M.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pages: 4078 - 4083 , IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, IROS, 2012 (inproceedings)
Ben Amor, H., Kroemer, O., Hillenbrand, U., Neumann, G., Peters, J.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems , pages: 2043-2050, IROS, 2012 (inproceedings)
Daniel, C., Neumann, G., Peters, J.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems , pages: 3591-3597, IROS, 2012 (inproceedings)
Deisenroth, M., Calandra, R., Seyfarth, A., Peters, J.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems , pages: 1787-1792, IROS, 2012 (inproceedings)
Peters, J., Kober, J., Mülling, K., Nguyen-Tuong, D., Kroemer, O.
In 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence , pages: 40-45, ECAI, 2012 (inproceedings)
van Hoof, H., Kroemer, O., Ben Amor, H., Peters, J.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pages: 5152-5158, IROS, 2012 (inproceedings)
Meyer, T., Peters, J., Zander, T., Brötz, D., Soekadar, S., Schölkopf, B., Grosse-Wentrup, M.
In International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation (ICNR) , pages: 617-621, (Editors: JL Pons, D Torricelli, and M Pajaro), Springer, Berlin, Germany, ICNR, 2012 (inproceedings)
Boularias, A., Kroemer, O., Peters, J.
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25, pages: 2186-2194, (Editors: P Bartlett and FCN Pereira and CJC. Burges and L Bottou and KQ Weinberger), Curran Associates Inc., 26th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2012 (inproceedings)
Hachiya, H., Peters, J., Sugiyama, M.
Neural Computation, 23(11):2798-2832, November 2011 (article)
Mülling, K., Kober, J., Peters, J.
Adaptive Behavior , 19(5):359-376 , October 2011 (article)
Wang, Z., Lampert, C., Mülling, K., Schölkopf, B., Peters, J.
In pages: 332-337 , (Editors: NM Amato), IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September 2011 (inproceedings)
Boularias, A., Kroemer, O., Peters, J.
In pages: 1548-1553 , (Editors: Amato, N.M.), IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September 2011 (inproceedings)
Bocsi, B., Nguyen-Tuong, D., Csato, L., Schölkopf, B., Peters, J.
In pages: 698-703 , (Editors: NM Amato), IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September 2011 (inproceedings)
Kober, J., Oztop, E., Peters, J.
In Robotics: Science and Systems VI, pages: 33-40, (Editors: Matsuoka, Y. , H. F. Durrant-Whyte, J. Neira), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2010 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS), September 2011 (inproceedings)