Feryal Behbahani
Senior Staff Research Scientist at Women in Machine Learning
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFeryal Behbahani is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind with 14 years of experience in machine learning and a PhD from Imperial College London. She has progressed through multiple research roles at DeepMind since 2019, applying deep reinforcement learning and learning-from-demonstration techniques to complex, real-world decision problems. Before DeepMind she led research at Latent Logic (acquired by Waymo), focusing on human-like behavior generation for simulators, game engines, and robotics. She serves on the Board of Directors for Women in Machine Learning and has mentored OpenAI Scholars, underscoring a commitment to community building and mentorship. Known for bridging rigorous academic training with applied research, she combines theory-driven methods with production-minded research engineering. Based in London, she maintains an active research presence and public portfolio at feryal.github.io.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Machine Learning at Imperial College LondonHeriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
Github Skills (18)
simulations5
simulation5
machine-learning4
mujoco4
replay4
deep-learning4
physics-engine4
python4
physics4
actor4
actor-critic3
deep-reinforcement-learning3
pytorch3
imitation-learning1
dart1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Feryal/craft-env
Jul 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:28 commits, 2 pushes in 4 months
Feryal/automated-curriculum-rl
Jul 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:43 commits, 2 pushes in 4 months
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