Tim Rocktäschel
Professor Of Artificial Intelligence at UCL
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTim Rocktäschel is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at UCL and an experienced researcher-leader with 14 years building and directing teams at the intersection of open-endedness, foundation models, and reinforcement learning. He has held senior research leadership roles at Google DeepMind and Meta/Facebook AI Research, co-founded Bloomsbury AI (acquired by Facebook), and leads the DARK Lab at UCL focused on decision-making and reasoning with knowledge. Tim combines deep academic credentials (PhD in Computer Science) with industry impact, having progressed from research intern to director/principal scientist while driving team strategy and novel research directions. Known for bridging rigorous theory and scalable systems, he also holds fellowships with ELLIS and an uncommon track record of moving ideas from lab to industry acquisition. Based in the UK, he is notable for steering open-endedness research at top institutions while maintaining active academic leadership and mentorship.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Inf. (equivalent to M.Sc.), Computer Science, Dipl.-Inf. (equivalent to M.Sc.), Computer Science at Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinUniversity College London
Github Skills (93)
reader10
python10
representations10
deep-learning10
gpu10
relation10
formulas10
multiagent-systems10
mahjong10
ml10
neural-network10
q-learning10
entity10
204810
nethack10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
uclnlp/emoji2vec
Mar 2018 - Oct 2020
emoji2vec: Learning Emoji Representations from their Description
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes, 1 issue in 2 years 7 months
information-theoryemojirepresentationsword-embeddingslatent-dirichlet-allocation
uclnlp/bibtex
Mar 2014 - Mar 2018
Contributions:81 commits, 9 pushes in 4 years
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