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Academic Experience<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
2024-present<\/td>Associate Professor<\/span>
\n Amlab, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018-2024<\/td>Assistant Professor<\/span>
\n Amlab, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016-2018<\/td> Postdoctoral Fellow, Reasoning and Learning Lab and Mobile Robotics Lab<\/span>
\n McGill University, Montreal, Canada<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>Visiting Graduate Student<\/span>
\nBiomimetic Robotics and Machine Learning lab, Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>Research intern<\/span>
\nRobot Cognition Laboratory, INSERM U846, Lyon, France<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t
Education<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
2011-2016<\/td>Ph.D. in Computer Science (with distinction)<\/span>
\nIntelligent Autonomous Systems Group, Technische Universit\u00e4t Darmstadt, Germany<\/span>
\nThesis: Machine Learning through Exploration for Perception-Drive Robotics (2016)
\nCommittee: Prof. Dr. J. Peters (Supervisor), Prof. Dr. M. Toussaint (U. Stuttgart), Prof.
\nDr. S. Roth, Prof. Dr. von Stryk, Prof. Dr. J. F\u00fcrnkranz and Prof. Dr. C. Rothkopf.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008-2011<\/td>Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence (with honors)<\/span>
\n\"Autonomous Perceptive Systems\" track, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.<\/span>
\nThesis: Interaction between Face Detection and Learning Tracking Systems for
\nAutonomous Robots (2011).
\nSupervisors:
\nDr. T. van der Zant, Dr. M. Wiering, Dr. P.F. Dominey and Prof. Dr. L. Schomaker.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005-2008<\/td>Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence (with honors)<\/span>
\nUniversity of Groningen, the Netherlands.<\/span>
\nThesis: Using Different Methods to Direct a Robot's Attention (2008).
\nSupervisors: G. Kootstra and S. de Jong.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Invited Talks<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Aachen Symposium on Representation Learning to Act and Plan, 2025.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Workshop on Theory of Control and Reinforcement Learning, 2025.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Workshop on Mathematics and AI, Tilburg, 2025.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Workshop on Modern Applications of Control Theory and Reinforcement Learning, 2025.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aachen Symposium on Representation Learning to Act and Plan, 2024. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
International Workshop on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, 2023.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2023. Host: Vincent Fran\u00e7ois.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 2023. Hosts: Nils Jansen and Sebastian Junges.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LabAutomation, FHI Laboratoriumtechniek, 2023.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Algorithmics group, TU Delft, 2022. Host: Mathijs de Weerdt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ELLIIT focus period seminar series, 2022.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sycamore lab, EPFL, 2022. Host: M. Kamgarpour.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Adaptive and learning agents workshop at AAMAS, 2022.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Analytics & Optimization Group, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2022. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Machine learning meets optimization workshop, Delft, 2021.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Optimization for and with machine learning workshop, Amsterdam, 2021.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group, TU Darmstadt, 2020 (virtual talk). Host: Jan Peters.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, 2019.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, T\u00fcbingen, 2019. Host: G. Martius<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Deloite AI Center of Excellence, 2019.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Belgium Netherlands Workshop on Reinforcement Learning, 2018.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Complexity Lab, University of Utrecht, 2018.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, 2018.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Departments DKE & IDS, Maastricht University, 2017.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Artificial Intelligence Department, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 2017.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cognitive Robotics Department, TU Delft, 2017. Host: R. Babuska.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Re-Work Montreal Deep Learning Summit, 2017.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning Workshop, ECML 2017.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Informatics Institute, Universiteit of Amsterdam, 2017. Host: M. Welling.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Delft Center for Systems and Control, TU Delft, 2016. Host: J. Kober.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RLL & MRL labs, McGill University, 2016. Host: J. Pineau, G. Dudek, D. Meger.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. Host: L. Kaelbling.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alice Institute, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 2016. Host: M. Wiering.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, 2015. Host: B. Sch\u00f6lkopf, S. Schaal.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Robot Learning Lab, UC Berkeley, 2015. Host: P. Abbeel.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RESL & CLMS labs, University of Southern California, 2015. Host: K. Hausman, G. Sukhatme, S. Schaal.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Machine Learning and Robotics Lab, Universit\u00e4t Stuttgart, 2014. Host: S. Otte, M. Toussaint.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Department of Computing, Imperial College London, 2014. Host: M. Deisenroth.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Robotics and Biology Group, TU Berlin, 2013. Host: S. H\u00f6fer, O. Brock.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Teaching<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Lecturer, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019-2024<\/td>Co-lecturer \"Autonomous Mobile Robots\" course.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018-2025<\/td>\"Reinforcement Learning\" master course.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Guest Lecturer<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023<\/td>\"TD Learning with Function Approximation\", Reinforcement learning summer school.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022<\/td>\"TD Learning with Function Approximation\" and \"Hierarchical RL\", Reinforcement learning summer school.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020<\/td>\"AI in Practice<\/a>\" MOOC, mini-lecture \"Exploiting structure in deep learning\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020<\/td>\"Information Revolutions\", guest lecture \"Deep Learning\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>\"Policy Search Methods\", Summer academy of the Deutsche Studientstiftung.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lecturer, McGill University, Montreal, Canada<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017-2018<\/td>Co-lecturer \"Applied Machine Learning\" graduate course.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Guest lecturer, McGill University, Montreal, Canada<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>Machine Learning - 'Kalman filtering and friends'.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>Reinforcement Learning - 'Advanced policy search methods'.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Guest lecturer, Technische Universit\u00e4t Darmstadt, Germany<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014-2015<\/td>\u201cTechnical Foundations of Computer Science\u201d course.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Teaching Assistant, Technische Universit\u00e4t Darmstadt, Germany<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014-2015<\/td>\u201cTechnical Foundations of Computer Science\u201d course.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013-2014<\/td>\u201cComputational Engineering\u201d course.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013<\/td>\u201cMachine Learning I\u201d master course.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012-2013<\/td>\u201cRobot learning\u201d master course.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011-2016<\/td>\u201cRobot learning\u201d practical course: Supervision of 1-2 project groups per year.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Teaching assistant, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\u201cMulti-agent systems\u201d master course.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010-2011<\/td>\u201cRobotics\u201d master course.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008-2009<\/td>\u201cIntroduction to Logic\u201d course.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008-2009<\/td>\u201cLanguage and Speech technology\u201d course.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Event Organization<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
2024<\/td>Co-organization, Belgian-Dutch Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (BeNeRL)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023<\/td>Co-coordinator, SIKS graduate course on Reinforcement learning for adaptive hybrid intelligence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>Workflow co-chair, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Co-organization of R:SS Workshop on Robot-Environment Interaction for
\nPerception and Manipulation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/td>Co-organization of Humanoids Workshop on Active Learning in Robotics.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Program Committee and Reviewing<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Grant reviewing<\/td>Austrian science fund (FWF; 2024)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>CHIST-ERA (2018)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>ERC (Advanced grant, 2019; Consolidator grant, 2021)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>NWO Veni panel (2024)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Vienna science and technology fund (WWTF; 2025)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Area chair<\/td>Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) (2018)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) (2019, 2022, 2023)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) (2019)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) (2020, 2021, 2023)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Associate Editor<\/td>IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2017)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (2019, Workshops)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Journals<\/td>Autonomous Robots (AURO), Special Issue 'Beyond Grasping' (2013)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter (RA-L) (2017,2019,2020)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics (JMLC) (2019)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>International Journal on Robotics Research (IJRR) (2018)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Journal on Machine Learning Research (JMLR) (2014, 2020, 2021)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Nature Machine Intelligence (2023)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (2016)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2021)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Robotics and Autonomous Systems (2017)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems (2017)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Conferences<\/td>AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) (PC 2021)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) (2018)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) (2017, 2019)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV) (2018)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (2018)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (2012, 2014, 2015,2018)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids) (2016, 2017)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) (2018,2019)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (2024)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) (PC 2013, PC 2016, PC 2017)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) (2016)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) (2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2024, 2025)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS) (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Workshops<\/td>European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL) (2018,2024)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t
Publications<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
A full list of publications is given on the publications<\/a> page<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.fnwi.uva.nl\/h.c.vanhoof\/homepage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.fnwi.uva.nl\/h.c.vanhoof\/homepage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.fnwi.uva.nl\/h.c.vanhoof\/homepage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.fnwi.uva.nl\/h.c.vanhoof\/homepage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.fnwi.uva.nl\/h.c.vanhoof\/homepage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staff.fnwi.uva.nl\/h.c.vanhoof\/homepage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/staff.fnwi.uva.nl\/h.c.vanhoof\/homepage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.fnwi.uva.nl\/h.c.vanhoof\/homepage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}