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Julian Togelius is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at NYU, and Cofounder and research director at modl.ai
Featured References Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI Academics Julian Togelius, Georgios N. Yannakakis
Learning Controllable 3D Level Generators Zehua Jiang, Sam Earle, Michael Cerny Green, Julian Togelius
PCGRL: Procedural Content Generation via Reinforcement Learning Ahmed Khalifa, Philip Bontrager, Sam Earle, Julian Togelius
Illuminating Generalization in Deep Reinforcement Learning through Procedural Level Generation Niels Justesen, Ruben Rodriguez Torrado, Philip Bontrager, Ahmed Khalifa, Julian Togelius, Sebastian Risi
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Dr Thomas Frost is an emergency physician based in London, UK. He is also in the final stages of completing a PhD at University College London, where he has been looking at offline reinforcement learning applied to healthcare settings. Featured References
Danijar Hafner was a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind until recently.
David Abel is a Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind on the Agency team, and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. His research blends computer science and philosophy, exploring foundational questions about reinforcement learning, definitions, and the nature of agency.
Recorded at Reinforcement Learning Conference 2025 at University of Alberta, Edmonton Alberta Canada. Featured References
We caught up with the RLC Outstanding Paper award winners for your listening pleasure. Recorded on location at Reinforcement Learning Conference 2025, at University of Alberta, in Edmonton Alberta Canada in August 2025. Featured References