Tim Rocktäschel

I am a Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Recursive and a Professor of AI at University College London (UCL). I am also faculty at the British Open-Ended Learning & Discovery (BOLD) national UK AI research lab, and a Fellow at the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS). Before, I was a Director, Principal Scientist, and the Open-Endedness Team Lead at Google DeepMind, and before that the Reinforcement Learning Team Lead at Meta AI (FAIR) London. My academic background includes postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford’s Whiteson Research Lab, along with a Junior Research Fellowship at Jesus College and a stipendiary lectureship at Hertford College. I earned my Ph.D. from UCL under the supervision of Sebastian Riedel, supported by a 2013 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Scholarship and a 2017 Google Ph.D. Fellowship. My research focuses on Artificial General Intelligence, Open-Endedness, and Recursive Self-Improvement. My work was recognized with two Best Paper Awards at ICML 2024 and a Keynote at ICLR 2025.