​I am a staff research scientist at Google DeepMind’s discovery team, where I build creative agents. My primary interest lies in developing artificial intelligence systems capable of making decisions and learning from them. I am an experimentalist at heart, but I enjoy theory from time to time, particularly in optimization. I also care a lot about physics. 

 

My work focuses on scalability, 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. My early research at DeepMind focused on two sub topics of RL: learning to RL learn (meta RL) and unsupervised RL. My papers on these topics, as well as earlier work from my PhD can be found below. 

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Personal life: I come from a small town in 🇮🇱 on the Mediterranean Sea. I am currently living in London 🇬🇧 and I spent some time in the 🇺🇸. My family is coming from 🇩🇪🇮🇩🇱🇺 and by DNA I am 🇮🇩🇮🇹🇮🇷(50/30/20). I am married to Gili​, a singer-songwriter from 🇮🇩🇲🇦🇮🇱. I love spending my free time outdoors in camping, hiking, 4X4 driving, mountaineering, skiing, and scuba diving. When I am at home, my hobbies are running, basketball, and reading science-fiction.