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\nProfessor
\nDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/a>
\nDivision of Systems Engineering<\/a>
\nDepartment of Computer Science<\/a> (affiliate)
\n<\/a>Boston University<\/p>\n
<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Selected Recent Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n Professional\u00a0information<\/strong><\/p>\n [Publications<\/a>][Google Scholar<\/a>][CV<\/a> (outdated)]<\/p>\n Contact Information<\/strong><\/p>\n Email:\u00a0alexols [at] bu [dot] edu <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12455,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/profiles.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/aolshevsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/aolshevsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/aolshevsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/aolshevsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/aolshevsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/aolshevsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/aolshevsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/aolshevsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong><\/strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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\nProceedings of ICML 2026<\/em>.<\/li>\n
\nJournal of Machine Learning Research<\/em>, 2025<\/li>\n
\nProceedings AISTATS 2025<\/em><\/li>\n
\n\u00a0Proceedings of NeurIPS 2023.<\/em><\/li>\n
\nProceedings of ICLR 2023<\/em><\/li>\n
\nSIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2023<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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