Alex Olshevsky

Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Division of Systems Engineering
Department of Computer Science (affiliate)
Boston University

Research Interests

• Learning and Control
• Reinforcement Learning

Selected Recent Publications

• Bridging the Gap Between Average and Discounted TD Learning
  Proceedings of ICML 2026.
• Sample Complexity of the Linear Quadratic Regulator: A Reinforcement Learning Lens
  Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2025
• MDP Geometry, Normalization and Value Free Solvers
  Proceedings AISTATS 2025
• Convergence of Actor-Critic with Multi-Layer Neural Networks
   Proceedings of NeurIPS 2023.
• On the Performance of Temporal Difference Learning with Neural Networks
  Proceedings of ICLR 2023
• A Small Gain Analysis of Single Timescale Actor-Critic
  SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2023.

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Contact Information

Email: alexols [at] bu [dot] edu
Office: 419 Photonics Center; 8 St. Mary St, Boston, MA, 02215.