Jeff Clune
Professor, Computer Science · University of British Columbia
At a glance. Jeff Clune is listed as Professor, Computer Science at University of British Columbia, with 2 other current roles listed. The profile sits among the builders and open-source contributors. Fields listed: Reinforcement learning, Agents and Machine-learning theory. The source lists 1 official page, 2 listed honors and open-role pages for OpenAI and Cornell University.
Summary
UBC professor and Recursive co-founder; former OpenAI research manager and Senior Research Advisor to DeepMind.
Known for: Video PreTraining (VPT); The AI Scientist.
Works at
- University of British Columbia 1 person in the wiki
- Recursive 1 person in the wiki
- Vector Institute 4 people in the wiki
Other documented roles
Not confirmed as current in the source profile.
- Senior Research Advisor, DeepMind
- Research manager, OpenAI
- Research Scientist, Cornell University
- Senior Research Manager and founding member, Uber AI Labs
- Harris Associate Professor in Computer Science, University of Wyoming
Open roles
Related people
- Kenneth StanleyReinforcement learning · Machine-learning theory
- Shimon WhitesonReinforcement learning · Agents
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- John LangfordReinforcement learning · Machine-learning theory
- Katja HofmannReinforcement learning · Agents
- David HaReinforcement learning · Agents
- Josh AlbrechtAgents · Reinforcement learning
- Leandro von WerraReinforcement learning · Agents
- Siddharth NarayananReinforcement learning · Agents
- Niko GrupenAgents · Reinforcement learning
Source and corrections
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