known for his research open endedness and [[metalearning]], such as [promptbreeder](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16797) --- I am a Director, Principal Scientist, and the Open-Endedness Team Lead at [Google DeepMind](https://deepmind.com/). I am also a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the [Centre for Artificial Intelligence](http://ai.cs.ucl.ac.uk/) in the [Department of Computer Science](http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/home) at [University College London (UCL)](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/) where I am PI of the [UCL Deciding, Acting, and Reasoning with Knowledge (DARK) Lab](https://ucldark.com/), and a Fellow of the [European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)](https://ellis.eu/). Before, I was a Manager, Research Scientist, and Area Lead at [Meta AI (FAIR)](https://ai.facebook.com/), a Postdoctoral Researcher in Reinforcement Learning at the [Whiteson Research Lab](http://whirl.cs.ox.ac.uk/) at the [University of Oxford](http://www.ox.ac.uk/), a Junior Research Fellow in Computer Science at [Jesus College](https://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/), and a Stipendiary Lecturer in Computer Science at [Hertford College](https://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/). I obtained my Ph.D. from UCL under the supervision of [Sebastian Riedel](https://www.riedelcastro.org/), where I was awarded a Microsoft Research Ph.D. Scholarship in 2013 and a Google Ph.D. Fellowship in 2017. My work focuses on Artificial General Intelligence, Open-Endedness, and Self-Improvement, and has received [Best Paper Awards](https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/awards_detail) at ICML. from https://rockt.ai/