Tom Zahavy

​I am a staff research scientist at Google DeepMind, working in the discovery team

 

I build creative agents that discover new knowledge and get better at doing so over time

 

In particular I worked on AlphaProof, AlphaZero_db, PuzzleGen, General objectives for RL and meta gradients. I mainly worked on Reinforcement learning. I am an experimentalist at heart, but I enjoy theory from time to time, particularly in optimization. I also care a lot about physics. Some topics that I worked on are scaling, structure discovery, hierarchy, abstraction, exploration, meta learning, and unsupervised learning within the area of reinforcement learning. I was also one of the first people to work on RL for Minecraft and Language games

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I was born in a small town called Haifa in 🇮🇱 on the Mediterranean Sea. I live in London 🇬🇧 and I spent some time in the 🇺🇸 My family is coming from 🇩🇪🇮🇩🇱🇺 and by DNA I am 🇮🇩🇮🇹 I am married to Gili​, a singer-songwriter from 🇮🇩🇲🇦🇮🇱 and my son Reef is 🇬🇧

 

I love spending time outdoors in camping, hiking, 4X4 driving, mountaineering, skiing, and scuba diving. I also love running, basketball, and reading science-fiction. I also love traveling and visited more than 70 countries