Natasha Jaques
Scholar

Natasha Jaques

Google Scholar ID: 8iCb2TwAAAAJ
University of Washington, Google Research
Social reinforcement learningMachine learningdeep learningmulti-agenthuman-AI interaction
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
5,929
 
H-index
29
 
i10-index
40
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
16
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • 2023 Best Paper, AAAI Workshop on Representation Learning for Responsible Human-Centric AI
  • 2021 Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award, Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing
  • 2021 Best of Collection, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (impact factor: 10.5)
  • 2020 Best Paper, NeurIPS Workshop on Cooperative AI
  • 2019 Honorable Mention for Best Paper, ICML
  • 2019 Rising Stars in EECS Pitch Competition Winner
  • 2019 Best Paper Nominee, NeurIPS Workshop on Conversational AI
  • 2017 Centennial Alumni of Distinction, Campion College
  • 2016 Best Paper, NeurIPS Workshop on ML for Healthcare
  • 2016 Best Demo, NeurIPS
  • Work featured in Science, MIT Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, Quartz, National Geographic, Boston Magazine, CBC radio, and more
Research Experience
  • During PhD at MIT, developed RL-based language model fine-tuning and human feedback learning techniques later built upon by OpenAI’s RLHF work
  • Developed methods for improving multi-agent coordination through optimization of social influence
  • Interned at DeepMind and Google Brain; served as OpenAI Scholars Mentor
  • Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar in Sergey Levine’s group at UC Berkeley
  • As Senior Research Scientist at Google Brain, built adversarial environment generation methods to enhance RL agent robustness