Joseph Modayil

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I am an independent AI researcher based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The focus of my research is on understanding intelligence well enough to build minds, mostly with reinforcement learning and robots.

Most recently, I was a staff research scientist at Google DeepMind. I studied with Ben Kuipers at the University of Texas at Austin for my PhD, I was a postdoctoral researcher with Henry Kautz at the University of Rochester, and I was a research associate with Rich Sutton at the University of Alberta.

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