{"id":5,"date":"2016-09-12T11:03:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T15:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/aolshevsky\/alex-olshevsky\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T14:51:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:51:34","slug":"alex-olshevsky","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/aolshevsky\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Alex Olshevsky<\/h1>\n<p>Profe<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-989 alignleft\" src=\"\/aolshevsky\/files\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221120_112129294_HDR-2-2-503x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/aolshevsky\/files\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221120_112129294_HDR-2-2-503x636.jpg 503w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/aolshevsky\/files\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221120_112129294_HDR-2-2-809x1024.jpg 809w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/aolshevsky\/files\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221120_112129294_HDR-2-2-768x972.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/aolshevsky\/files\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221120_112129294_HDR-2-2-1214x1536.jpg 1214w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/aolshevsky\/files\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221120_112129294_HDR-2-2.jpg 1538w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/>ssor<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/departments\/ece\/\">Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/departments\/se\/\">Division of Systems Engineering<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/\">Department of Computer Science<\/a> (affiliate)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/systems\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Boston University<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nResearch Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learning and Control<\/li>\n<li>Reinforcement Learning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recent Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2404.10851\" class=\"gsc_a_at\">Sample Complexity of the Linear Quadratic Regulator: A Reinforcement Learning Lens<\/a><em>, Journal of Machine Learning Research<\/em>, 2025.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/openreview.net\/forum?id=QlfGOVD5PO\">Convergence of Actor-Critic with Multi-Layer Neural Networks<\/a><em>, Proceedings of NeurIPS 2023.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/openreview.net\/pdf?id=6JMXLWX68Kj\">On the Performance of Temporal Difference Learning with Neural Network<\/a><em>, Proceedings of ICLR 2023<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2203.02591\">A Small Gain Analysis of Single Timescale Actor-Critic<\/a><em>, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2023<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2003.06739\">Asymptotic Network Independence and Step-Size for a Distributed Subgradient Method<\/a><em>, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2022<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Professional\u00a0information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/aolshevsky\/publications\/\">Publications<\/a>][<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/aolshevsky\/videos\/\">Videos<\/a>][<a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=YKwHoFMAAAAJ\">Google Scholar<\/a>][<a href=\"\/aolshevsky\/files\/2025\/07\/Abbreviated_CV.pdf\">CV<\/a>][<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/aolshevsky\/students-and-postdocs\/\">Alumni<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Email:\u00a0alexols [at] bu [dot] edu<br \/>\nOffice: 419 Photonics Center; 8 St. Mary St, Boston, MA, 02215.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Olshevsky Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Division of Systems Engineering Department of Computer Science (affiliate) Boston University \u00a0 &nbsp; Research Interests Learning and Control Reinforcement Learning Recent Publications Sample Complexity of the Linear Quadratic Regulator: A Reinforcement Learning Lens, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2025. Convergence of Actor-Critic with Multi-Layer Neural Networks, [&hellip;]<\/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":12,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/aolshevsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/12"}],"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}]}}