Tim Rocktäschel

Tim Rocktäschel is a Co-Founder of Recursive, a London-based frontier AI lab building recursive self-improving AI systems. He is also a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL), where he is a PI of the British Open-ended Learning and Discovery (BOLD) Lab, and a Fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS). Previously, he was a Director, Principal Scientist, and the Open-Endedness Team Lead at Google DeepMind. Before that, he was a Manager, Research Scientist, and Area Lead at Meta AI (FAIR), a Postdoctoral Researcher in Reinforcement Learning at the Whiteson Research Lab at the University of Oxford, a Junior Research Fellow in Computer Science at Jesus College, and a Stipendiary Lecturer in Computer Science at Hertford College. He obtained his Ph.D. from UCL under the supervision of Sebastian Riedel, where he was awarded a Microsoft Research Ph.D. Scholarship in 2013 and a Google Ph.D. Fellowship in 2017. His work focuses on Artificial General Intelligence, Open-Endedness, and Self-Improvement, and has received Best Paper Awards at ICML.