Emanuel Todorov
Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Emanuel Todorov, Associate Professor, graduated from MIT in 1998 with a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience. He joined the University of Washington from the Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California San Diego.
The real-time control of a complex musculo-skeletal system such as the human body requires the generation of thousands of control signals per second. Humans' ability to accomplish difficult tasks - in the face of noise, delays, uncertainty, and constantly changing circumstances - suggests that these control signals are chosen rather intelligently and to a large extent online. Todorov’s research focus is intelligent control in biological and artificial systems. He combines experimental and computational methods to investigate how the brain controls the body in a variety of motor tasks. He also develops biologically-inspired control algorithms which aim to solve complex problems beyond the reach of traditional control theory.
See Emanuel Todorov's Movement Control Laboratory Web site.
New Faculty 2008 by Department
Computer Science & Engineering
Michael D. Ernst
Shwetak N. Patel (also EE)
Georg Seelig (also EE)
Emanuel Todorov
Electrical Engineering
Maryam Fazel
Shwetak N. Patel (also CSE)
Jacques “Chris” Rudell
Georg Seelig (also CSE)
Human Centered Design & Engineering (formerly Technical Communication)
Sarah Kriz
Charlotte P. Lee
Julie Kientz
Materials Science & Engineering
Marco Rolandi
Mechanical Engineering
Amy Shen
Junlan Wang