Scholar
Oliver Groth
Google Scholar ID: h3wt5ocAAAAJ
Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Citations & Impact
Citations
7,286
H-index
11
i10-index
11
Publications
18
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published papers and gave a TEDx talk providing an overview of his research motivations and how it could be applied to teach a robot to play Jenga.
Research Experience
- Currently a Research Scientist at DeepMind, working with Martin Riedmiller's team. During his Ph.D., he focused on the acquisition of physical intuition and its utilization in robot learning. He was a visiting student researcher at the Stanford Vision Lab, involved in the VisualGenome project, supervised by Fei-Fei Li.
Education
- Ph.D. from Oxford University, supervised by Ingmar Posner at the Oxford Robotics Institute (ORI) and Andrea Vedaldi at the Visual Geometry Group (VGG). Obtained a Diplom degree in Computer Science from Dresden University of Technology, supervised by Carsten Rother.
Background
- AI researcher, games enthusiast. His research interests include machine-learning approaches to robotic exploration and control.
Miscellany
- In his spare time, he enjoys long walks, hikes, swimming, skiing, archery, listening to music, and playing the piano. He is also very passionate about playing computer and tabletop games. He was a member of an indie developer team called PhoenixTales, where they worked on their own 3D Action-Role-Playing-Game, Phoenix.
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