Biography Kaushik Subramanian is a Senior Research Scientist at Sony AI working on the flagship Gaming project. Before joining Sony, Kaushik was at Cogitai, focusing on continual learning approaches for industrial applications and building a scalable, easy-to-use SaaS platform. He received his Ph.D. in 2017 from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA working on human-in-the-loop systems…
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Biography Charley Wu is a cognitive scientist interested in the specific shortcuts and cognitive algorithms that people use to make inference tractable. Using online and virtual reality experiments, he employs computational models to predict and understand human behavior. These models allow us to understand the strategies and approximations that allow people to do so much…
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Biography Kathryn Kasmarik is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW Canberra). Kathryn completed a Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Sydney, including a study exchange at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She graduated with First Class Honours and…
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Biography Martin Riedmiller is a research scientist and team-lead at DeepMind, London. Before joining DeepMind fulltime in spring 2015, he held several professor positions in machine learning and neuro-informatics from 2002 to 2015 at Dortmund, Osnabrück and Freiburg University. From 1998 to 2009 he lead the robot soccer team ‘Brainstormers’ that participated in the internationally…
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Biography Deepak Pathak is a faculty in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and his research spans computer vision, machine learning, and robotics. He is a recipient of the faculty awards from Google, Sony, GoodAI, Samsung, and graduate fellowship awards from Facebook, NVIDIA, Snapchat. His…
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Biography My research focuses on how children and adults actively search for information when making decisions, drawing causal inferences and solving categorization tasks. Search strategies, as any other kind of strategies, are not always effective, because their usefulness and performance depends on the characteristics of the problem presented. In this sense, I am interested in…
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Biography Daniel Polani is Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Director of the Centre for Computer Science and Informatics Research (CCSIR) and Head of the Adaptive Systems Research Group at the University of Hertfordshire. His research interests principles of cognition and intelligent decision-making, expressed in the language of information theory. In the past decades, he developed a…
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Biography Sao Mai Nguyen specializes in cognitive developmental learning, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, automatic curriculum learning for robots : she develops algorithms for robots to learn multi-task controls by designing themselves their curriculum and by active imitation learning. She received her PhD from Inria in 2013 in computer science, for her machine learning algorithms combining…
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Biography Michael Spranger is a Senior Researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratories and the COO of Sony AI. Michael’s research interest is to build creative, intelligent systems that learn autonomously in the real world. His work has spanned sensorimotor learning, the emergence of communication and foundations of AI.
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Biography Prof. Dr. Martin V. Butz has been a professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science, University of Tübingen, Germany, since 2011. His main background lies in computer science and machine learning (Diploma from Würzburg University and PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA;…
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