TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning Podcast

Satinder Singh: The Origin Story of RLDM @ RLDM 2025

TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning Podcast

Show Notes

Professor Satinder Singh of Google DeepMind and U of Michigan is co-founder of RLDM. Here he narrates the origin story of the Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making meeting (not conference). Recorded on location at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland during RLDM 2025. Featured References

RLDM 2025: Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM) June 11-14, 2025 at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Satinder Singh on Google Scholar

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