Research Scientist
Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, London, United Kingdom
I am a research scientist at Huawei Noah's Ark Lab. Previously, I was a PhD student as part of the Bath Reinforcement Learning Lab, supervised by Özgür Şimşek. I'm interested in all things reinforcement learning, particularly questioning the basic building blocks we use to study and create artificial intelligence.
Since the start of my PhD, I have been interested in identifying and explaining key aspects of artificial agents interacting with their environments: behaviour, performance and prediction. Recently, I have been using the lense of bounded rationality to explore how fundamental mechanisms of intelligence—such as representations, hierarchy and continual learning—naturally emerge as necessary conditions of resource-constrained agents. This has led me to question the philosophical foundations of reinforcement learning: what is an agent, and how do our assumptions shape the algorithms and conceptual models we design and build?
ART-AI Colloquium Series, February 2024
Bath Doctoral Festival of Ideas, July 2024
Bath AI Society, April 2024