Jack Parker-holder
Honorary Associate Professor
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJack Parker-holder is an Honorary Associate Professor and Research Director at DeepMind with nine years of experience at the intersection of machine learning research and applied quantitative systems. He leads world-models and Genie 3 efforts, teaches open-endedness and general intelligence at UCL, and pursues designs aimed at continuously generating novel behaviors—ambitiously hinting at AGI. His background spans rigorous academic training (DPhil, Oxford; MA QMSS, Columbia; BSc Mathematics) and quant finance roles at JPMorgan, giving him a rare blend of theoretical depth and production-focused, risk-aware engineering. He has worked on open-ended learning projects at Meta and maintains a public research presence via jparkerholder.github.io. Colleagues describe him as someone who thinks like a scientist but ships like an engineer, applying probabilistic and reinforcement-learning methods to scalable systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
CFA Charterholder, CFA Charterholder at CFA InstituteDPhil, Engineering Science, DPhil, Engineering Science at University of OxfordMaster of Arts (M.A.), QMSS, Master of Arts (M.A.), QMSS at Columbia UniversityBSc (Hons), Mathematics, BSc (Hons), Mathematics at University of Exeter
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Github Skills (29)
pytorch10
parallel10
rllib10
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
large-language-models10
reinforcement-learning10
llm-inference10
llm10
hyperparameter-optimization10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
ai10
ray10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jparkerholder/PB2
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
Code for the Population-Based Bandits Algorithm, presented at NeurIPS 2020.
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
jparkerholder/ASEBO
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
Code to run the ASEBO algorithm from the paper: From Complexity to Simplicity: Adaptive ES-Active Subspaces for Blackbox Optimization... please get in touch if interested!!
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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