Professor, Computer Science, University of British Columbia. CIFAR AI Chair, Vector Institute. Senior Advisor, DeepMind. ML, AI, deep RL, deep learning, AI-Generating Algorithms (AI-GAs), open-endedness.
SVP of Open-Endedness at Lila Sciences. In the past: Maven CEO, Lead at OpenAI, head of basic/core research at Uber AI, professor at UCF.
Stuff I helped invent: NEAT, CPPNs, HyperNEAT, novelty search, POET, Picbreeder.
Book: Why Greatness Cannot Be Plann
PhD @Stanford working w @noahdgoodman and research fellow @GoodfireAI
Studying in-context learning and reasoning in humans and machines
Prev. @UofT CS & Psych
Postdoc at CBS, Harvard University
(New around here)
Group Leader, CBS-NTT "Physics of Intelligence" Program at Harvard
website: https://sites.google.com/view/htanaka/home
Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University
https://gershmanlab.com/
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University. Computation, cognition, development.
2nd year computational neuro PhD student at Boston University (advisors Cynthia Bradham & Gabe Ocker)
Mathematically modeling embryonic neurodevelopment
I write trippy scifi & mathfiction.
Ignyte Award Finalist 2025
6 stories in Clarkesworld
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