Tom Erez

Welcome to my homepage! I am a postdoc at the University of Washington-Seattle (UW), where I work with Emanuel Todorov and Tom Daniel. My goal is to generate locomotion from first principles (see below) in biomechanically-realistic simulations. My post-doc position was awarded by the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Scholars Program in Integrative Biophysics, so I'm also a member of the Physiology and Biophysics department.

I study motor control; in particular, I use nonlinear, non-convex optimization algorithms to generate novel motion from first principles (e.g., move forward, get up, avoid turning). I seek ways to train my simulated agents to perform complex, articulated motor tasks which they discover on their own, without hard-coding the details of the motion.

I completed my doctoral studies at Media and Machines lab in the computer science department, Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL). At UW I continue to collaborate with Yuval Tassa.