Biography
Bruno Castro da Silva is a professor at the Institute of Informatics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Prior to that he was a postdoctoral associate at the Aerospace Controls Laboratory, at MIT. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Barto. Both his MSc. and B.S. cum laude degrees are in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Bruno has worked, in several occasions, as a visiting researcher at the Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience, in Rome, Italy, developing novel control algorithms for humanoid robots. He has also worked at Adobe Research, in California, developing large-scale machine learning techniques for digital marketing optimization. Bruno’s research interests lie in the intersection of machine learning, reinforcement learning, optimal control theory, and robotics, and include the construction of hierarchical motor skills, active learning, neural networks, and Bayesian optimization applied to control.
