| Nov 2024 | Starting in January, I will join the Discovery team at Google DeepMind in London as a Senior Research Scientist! |
| Jul 2024 | Received a grant for a multi-year project focused on using Reinforcement Learning for Chemical Materials discovery, in partnership with industry at KAUST. This project was co-authored with Jürgen Schmidhuber. We are hiring 3 Postdocs for this project! |
| Jul 2024 | Received a grant for a multi-year project focused on General AI at KAUST. This project was co-authored with Jürgen Schmidhuber. We are hiring 2 PhD students for this project! |
| Jul 2024 | KAUST launched a Center of Excellence in Generative AI, led by Professors Bernard Ghanem and Jürgen Schmidhuber. |
| Jun 2024 | 3 papers accepted to ICML 2024, including two oral presentations (top 1.5%). |
| Jun 2024 | Given an invited talk at SDAIA in Riyadh. |
| Apr 2024 | Given an invited talk at Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, on learning to extract information from Neural Networks. |
| Feb 2024 | Co-organized the second Rising Stars in AI Symposium at KAUST. |
| Feb 2024 | Successfully defended my PhD thesis on Reinforcement learning with general evaluators and generators of policies. PhD committee: Jürgen Schmidhuber, Marcello Restelli, Alex Graves, Cesare Alippi, Rolf Krause. |
