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Dr. Aidan Scannell, Ph.D.

Helsinki
Robotics & AI Researcher with over 6 years experience developing and implementing cutting-edge machine learning and robotics algorithms.
Experience

Aalto University

Postdoctoral Researcher / July, 2022 — Present

Received four-year funding to sit jointly in the Robot Learning Lab and the Machine Learning Group.

Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence Team Lead - Long-term decision making and transfer between tasks. / February, 2023 — Present

Leading a 6-person team of reinforcement learning researchers working on problems in the embodied AI domain.

University of Bristol

Teaching Assistant / September, 2018 — May, 2022

Teaching assistant for (i) Machine Learning, (ii) Robotic Systems and (iii) Intelligent Information Systems courses.

Research Expertise
probabilistic machine learning
reinforcement learning
robotics
About
Hello, my name is Aidan Scannell and I am a postdoctoral researcher with interests at the intersection of machine learning, sequential decision making and robotics. My research aims at enabling autonomous agents to learn behaviours, such that they can learn to solve any task. I am particularly interested in controlling agents with natural language instructions and the challenges associated with developing a robotic foundation model which can generalise across tasks, objects and embodiments. I am a [Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence](https://fcai.fi/) postdoctoral researcher at [Aalto University](https://www.aalto.fi/en) in Joni Pajarinen’s [Robot Learning Lab](https://rl.aalto.fi/) and Arno Solin’s [Machine Learning Research Group](https://users.aalto.fi/~asolin/group/). I obtained my PhD from the [University of Bristol](https://www.bristol.ac.uk/) under the supervision of Arthur Richards and Carl Henrik Ek. During my PhD I developed methods for controlling quadcopters in uncertain environments by synergising methods from probabilistic machine learning, stochastic differential geometry and reinforcement learning.

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Athul Prasad

5G / 6G Technology and Ventures at Samsung; D.Sc. (Tech), MBA
Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Master of Business Administration, Sloan School of Management / May, 2020

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Aalto-yliopisto Sähkötekniikan korkeakoulu

Doctor of Science (Technology), Communication and Networking / December, 2015

Aalto

Aalto University

M.Sc. (Tech), Wireless Communications / March, 2011

Espoo
Experience

Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Senior Specialist, Radio Research / June, 2014 — January, 2023

Wireless research, scientific publications, patents

Samsung Electronics

Senior Manager / January, 2023 — Present

Technology partnership, strategy, business development

NEC Europe Ltd

Research Engineer / December, 2012 — May, 2014

Aalto University

Research scientist / May, 2010 — December, 2012

Huawei

Software Engineer / September, 2006 — July, 2009

Research Expertise
Machine Learning
Mobility Management
5G / New Radio
Dynamic Resource Allocation
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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About
Dr. Athul Prasad received his MBA from MIT where he was a Sloan Fellow, M.Sc. (Tech.) (with distinction) and D.Sc. (Tech) from Aalto University, B.Tech (with distinction) from University of Kerala, and is also a graduate of the year-long executive management (LEAD) program from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He was with Nokia from 2014-2023 and is currently with Samsung based out of Mountain View, CA. He has coauthored over 40 peer reviewed scientific publications and has written a book on 5G "End-to-End Mobile Communications: Evolution to 5G," McGraw-Hill, Aug. 2020. He's also the co-inventor of over 90 patents.

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