Alessio Russo

About Me

I am a researcher in Reinforcement Learning and Control methodology. Currently a Postdoc at Boston University, where I’m advised by Prof. Pacchiano Aldo.

• I have a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from KTH Royal Insitute of Technology (Stockholm), where I was supervised by Prof. Proutiere Alexandre at the Division of Decision and Control Systems.
• Due to my past experiences, and interests, I have a versatile background, with both theoretical and practical expertise.
• Programming languages: Python, C, C++

Research Interests

My research interests are in statistical learning, particularly in the areas of learning for sequential decision making.

• Reinforcement Learning: adaptive/pure exploration (theoretical and practical), self-play RL, robust/adversarial RL and bandit algorithms.
• Adaptive and Robust Control: adaptive control (e.g., MRAC/L1), adaptive MPC and non-linear control.

News

• [Jun. 2025] “In-Context Pure Exploration” has been accepted to the EXAIT workshop @ ICML 2025 (Vancouver, Canada)
• [Jun. 2025] Presenting “Optimal Exploration With Feedback Graphs” at Informs APS 2025, in Atlanta.
• [Apr. 2025] “Adaptive Exploration for Multi-Reward Multi-Policy Exploration” has been accepted as a poster to ICML 2025 (Vancouver, Canada)
• [Dec. 2024] Our paper “Pure Exploration with Feedback Graphs” has been accepted as an oral to AISTATS 2025 (Phuket, Thailand)
• [Sep. 2024] “Multi-Reward Best-Policy Identification” has been accepted as a poster to NeurIPS 2024 (Vancouver, Canada)
• [Jul. 2024] Our paper about “Fair Best Arm Identification with Fixed Confidence” has been accepted sa an oral to CDC 2024 (Milan, Italy)

Recent Publications

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