Kolby Nottingham
Head Of AI at Latitude
Redlands, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKolby Nottingham is Head of AI with nine years of experience building generative AI and LLM-based agents for games and entertainment, currently leading AI efforts at Latitude. He brings a strong research-to-product track record—publishing at ICML 2024 and contributing NeurIPS workshop work on LLM-driven quest and storytelling systems while interning at Riot Games. His background spans deep RL, continual in-context policy improvement, and practical ML engineering across Unity, NVIDIA, and academic labs, blending prototype research with shipping production-ready models. At Latitude he designed LFHF pipelines and implicit user-feedback metrics that doubled user preference for new models, showing an emphasis on human-centered optimization. A UC Irvine PhD candidate, Kolby pairs rigorous academic methods with hands-on implementation in Python, C#, and RL toolchains. Based in Redlands, CA, he specializes in making interactive AI agents that are both technically novel and tuned for player experience.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Computer Science, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science at Brigham Young UniversityHigh School, High School at Martin Luther King High SchoolUniversity of California, Irvine
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (70)
simulator10
deep-learning10
ml-agents10
serve10
robotics10
simulations10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
unity3d10
reinforcement-learning-environments10
reinforcement-learning10
intelligent10
imitation-learning10
machine-learning10
computer-vision9
minecraft9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kolbytn/hack
Oct 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:125 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
kolbytn/TextRL
Dec 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:41 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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