Oliver Groth
Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOliver Groth is a Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind with a decade of experience advancing robot learning and embodied intelligence through reinforcement and self-supervised learning. He has led work on large-scale actor-critic continuous control, autonomous data collection, and curiosity-driven behavior discovery—publishing on emergent behaviors from curious exploration. Trained at Oxford (DPhil) and Stanford, Oliver blends deep academic foundations with production-scale research, shipping algorithms that bridge perception and control. A practiced speaker on AI and computer vision, he also brings early industry experience building CV and NLP pipelines for document understanding. Based in London, he is a games enthusiast whose interest in interactive environments informs his approach to building intelligent, physically grounded agents.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
DPhil Engineering Science Computer Vision & Robotics, DPhil Engineering Science Computer Vision & Robotics at University of OxfordDiplom Computer Science, Diplom Computer Science at Technische Universität DresdenComputer Science, Computer Science at Stanford University
German, English, French
Github Skills (18)
rendering10
scene10
mujoco10
simulation9
tensorflow8
simulations5
python3
generative3
physics-engine3
physics3
science3
rpg3
datasets3
machine-learning2
data-science2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ogroth/shapestacks
Apr 2018 - Apr 2022
Tensorflow models and simulation code for 'ShapeStacks: Learning Vision-Based Physical Intuition for Generalised Object Stacking'
Contributions:1 release, 69 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years
stackingvisionphysicalsimulationtensorflow-models
ogroth/tf-gqn
Jun 2018 - Aug 2021
Tensorflow implementation of Neural Scene Representation and Rendering
Contributions:207 commits, 33 PRs, 90 pushes in 3 years 2 months
representationgqn-datasetsrenderingview-synthesisneural-processes
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