Scholar
Tom Schaul
Google Scholar ID: vDimc-4AAAAJ
Senior Staff Scientist, DeepMind
Citations & Impact
Citations
34,885
H-index
43
i10-index
72
Publications
20
Co-authors
126
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Published papers in top conferences and journals such as NeurIPS 2022, Nature Communications 2020, Nature 2019
- - Served various roles in international conferences like program chair for RLC 2026, area chair for ICML 2024
- - Involved in significant projects including StarCraft II
Research Experience
- - Postdoc at the Courant Institute of NYU, in Yann LeCun's lab, 2011-2013
- - Senior Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind London, current position
Education
- - MSc from EPFL (Switzerland), 2005
- - PhD from TU Munich, supervised by Jürgen Schmidhuber at IDSIA, 2011
Background
- - Research Interests: (modular/hierarchical) reinforcement learning, (stochastic/black-box) optimization with minimal hyperparameter tuning, and (deep/recurrent) neural networks.
- - Favorite Application Domain: Games
- - Grew up in Luxembourg
Miscellany
- - Has a particular interest in games
