Emanuel (Emo) Vassilev Todorov (born 1971), a neuroscientist, is an associate professor and director of the Movement Control Laboratory[1] at the University of Washington.
[3] He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit[4] at UCL under Peter Dayan and Geoffrey Hinton.
[5] In 2002 he proposed that stochastic optimal control principles are a good theoretical framework for explaining biological movement.
[6] In 2011 this view was acknowledged by one of its critics, Karl Friston, to have become "the dominant paradigm for understanding motor behavior in formal or computational terms.
[13] He is the recipient of 11 National Science Foundation grant awards totalling more than $7.5 million as Principal Investigator.