Michal Valko @misovalko.bsky.social Founding Researcher @ Isara Labs & Inria & MVA. Ex: Llama @AIatMeta; Gemini and BYOL @GoogleDeepMind. LLMs, RL, alignment.
Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai Vector Institute transforms cutting-edge artificial intelligence research into practical solutions. AI-generated content will be disclosed. FR: @institutvecteur.bsky.social
Michael Bowling @michaelhbowling.bsky.social Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. Interested in AI, reinforcement learning, and games of all sorts.
@vladmnih.bsky.social @vladmnih.bsky.social 
McGill University @mcgill.ca Over 200 years of great education, excellent research, in service to society.
🔗 www.mcgill.ca
John D. Martin @jdmartin86.bsky.social Thinking about AI and RL.
Fellow @ Openmind Research Institute
Adjunct Prof. @ University of Alberta
Satinder Singh Baveja @satindersingh.bsky.social Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. Interested in Reinforcement Learning and Artificial Intelligence. 
Nishanth Anand @itsnva7.bsky.social Final-year PhD student in AI at Mila (Quebec AI Institute) and McGill University w/ Doina Precup.
Research: RL, continual RL, and neuro-inspired RL.
Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org The world's largest professional organization advancing #computing as a science and profession. Also on Mastodon | LinkedIn | Meta | YouTube | Instagram.
Jan Peters @jan-peters.bsky.social #RobotLearning Professor (#MachineLearning #Robotics) at @ias-tudarmstadt.bsky.social of
@tuda.bsky.social @dfki.bsky.social @hessianai.bsky.social 
Nicklas Hansen @ncklashansen.bsky.social Postdoc at NYU. Prev: PhD at UCSD, intern NVIDIA, Meta AI, UC Berkeley, BS/MS DTU. I like robots 🤖, plants 🪴, and they/them pronouns 🏳️🌈
https://www.nicklashansen.com
Abhishek Naik @abhisheknaik96.bsky.social PhD graduate in reinforcement learning from the University of Alberta. Now, RL research in space! 🚀🛰️
@pierrelucbacon.bsky.social @pierrelucbacon.bsky.social 
@tylerkastner.bsky.social @tylerkastner.bsky.social 
Yann LeCun @yann-lecun.bsky.social Professor a NYU; Executive Chairman at AMI Labs..
Researcher in AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, etc.
ACM Turing Award Laureate.
http://yann.lecun.com
Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social Google Chief Scientist, Gemini Lead. Opinions stated here are my own, not those of Google. Gemini, TensorFlow, MapReduce, Bigtable, Spanner, ML things, ...
Nature @nature.com Research, news, and commentary from Nature, the international science journal. For daily science news, get Nature Briefing: https://go.nature.com/get-Nature-Briefing
Arnaud Doucet @arnauddoucet.bsky.social Senior Staff Research Scientist @Google DeepMind
https://arnauddoucet.github.io/
Scott Jeen @enjeeneer.io PhD Student at Cambridge University. AI and reinforcement learning.
Patrick Shafto @patrickshafto.bsky.social Prof: Rutgers; Program Manager: DARPA; Scientist-at-Large: Redpoll.
Math! Machine learning! Cognitive Science!
Harley Wiltzer @harwiltz.bsky.social PhD student at Mila / McGill. Studying distributional RL for transfer across risk-sensitive utilities, and for long-horizon high-frequency decision-making.- A Arthur Gretton @arthurgretton.bsky.social
Zed @zed.dev A next-generation code editor that enables high-performance collaboration with AI and your team.
zed.dev
@andrew-n-carr.bsky.social @andrew-n-carr.bsky.social co-founder leading science at Cartwheel
AI writer for TLDR AI Newsletter
co-founder Arcade
Past - Codegen at OpenAI, Brain at GoogleAI, world ranked Tetris player
Michael Bronstein @mmbronstein.bsky.social DeepMind Professor of AI @Oxford
Scientific Director @Aithyra
Chief Scientist @ProximaBio
ML Lead @ProjectCETI
geometric deep learning, graph neural networks, generative models, molecular design, proteins, bio AI, 🐎 🎶
Richard Sutton @richard-sutton.bsky.social 
Noam Brown @polynoamial.bsky.social Researching reasoning at OpenAI | Co-created Libratus/Pluribus superhuman poker AIs, CICERO Diplomacy AI, and OpenAI o-series / 🍓
Matteo papini @handle.invalid Bha facciamo una prova
Khimya Khetarpal @khimya.bsky.social 👾 Research Scientist, Google Deepmind, Affiliate Faculty Mila.
🎓Ph.D. Reasoning and Learning Lab, McGill University, Mila.
🐀Researcher in Reinforcement Learning
📸 Enjoys Photography
🤖 Build Things
👩🏫 Educator and Mentor
@maxsimchowitz.bsky.social @maxsimchowitz.bsky.social 
@yeewhye.bsky.social @yeewhye.bsky.social 
Quentin Berthet @ AISTATS @qberthet.bsky.social Machine learning
Google DeepMind
Paris
Csaba Szepesvari @skiandsolve.bsky.social ⛷️ ML Theorist carving equations and mountain trails | 🚴♂️ Biker, Climber, Adventurer | 🧠 Reinforcement Learning: Always seeking higher peaks, steeper walls and better policies.
https://ualberta.ca/~szepesva
Emmanuel Bengio @bengioe.bsky.social Staff ML Scientist @valenceai.bsky.social Labs/Recursion Pharma, Mila
GFlowNets, molecules & stuff
https://folinoid.com
Mila - Institut québécois d'IA @mila-quebec.bsky.social Le plus grand centre de recherche universitaire en apprentissage profond — The world's largest academic research center in deep learning.
Michael Noukhovitch @mnoukhov.bsky.social PhD in AI @mila-quebec.bsky.social RLHF and language grounding, whatever that means. Whitespace aficianado. mnoukhov.github.io
@arianh.bsky.social @arianh.bsky.social 
Nate Rahn @n8rahn.bsky.social PhD candidate at Mila, formerly Google eng, Brown University. Making LLMs explorative, adaptive, and goal-oriented
Samuel Lavoie @lavoiems.bsky.social PhD candidate @Mila_quebec, @UMontreal. Ex: FAIR @AIatMeta.
Learning representations, minimizing free energy, running.
Kevin Murphy @sirbayes.bsky.social Probabilistic ML researcher at Google Deepmind
Dr. Fei-Fei Li @drfeifei.bsky.social Prof (CS @Stanford), Co-Director @StanfordHAI, Cofounder/CEO @theworldlabs, CoFounder @ai4allorg #AI #computervision #robotics #AI-healthcare
RL Theory Virtual Seminars @rl-theory.bsky.social Virtual seminar series featuring the latest advances in theoretical reinforcement learning. Seminars (approximately) every Tuesday at 6pm UTC.
> https://sites.google.com/corp/view/rltheoryseminars
Andrew Gordon Wilson @andrewgwils.bsky.social Machine Learning Professor
https://cims.nyu.edu/~andrewgw
Sham Kakade @shamkakade.bsky.social Harvard Professor.
ML and AI.
Co-director of the Kempner Institute.
https://shamulent.github.io
Gergely Neu @neu-rips.bsky.social full-time ML theory nerd, part-time AI-non enthusiast
Costa Huang @vwxyzjn.bsky.social RL + LLM @ai2.bsky.social; main dev of https://cleanrl.dev/
Francis Bach @bachfrancis.bsky.social Researcher in machine learning
Amir-massoud Farahmand @sologen.bsky.social Research Goal: Understanding the computational and statistical principles required to design AI/RL agents.
Associate Professor at Polytechnique Montréal and Mila. 🇨🇦
academic.sologen.net
Martin Klissarov @martinklissarov.bsky.social research @ Google DeepMind
NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social San Diego Dec 2-7, 25 and Mexico City Nov 30-Dec 5, 25. Comments to this account are not monitored. Please send feedback to townhall@neurips.cc.
Katja Hofmann @katjahofmann.bsky.social At Microsoft Research. Lead of https://aka.ms/game-intelligence - we drive innovation in machine learning with applications in games. https://iclr.cc Board.
Guillaume Lajoie @glajoie.bsky.social Professor at Université de Montréal & Mila -- Québec AI Institute
mathematics - neuroscience - artificial intelligence
Siva Reddy @sivareddyg.bsky.social Assistant Professor @Mila-Quebec.bsky.social
Co-Director @McGill-NLP.bsky.social
Researcher @ServiceNow.bsky.social
Alumni: @StanfordNLP.bsky.social, EdinburghNLP
Natural Language Processor #NLProc
University of Alberta @ualberta.bsky.social We are #UAlberta! Always seeking, always challenging and, most of all, always leading with purpose.
Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
Russ Salakhutdinov @rsalakhu.bsky.social VP of Research, GenAI @ Meta (Multimodal LLMs, AI Agents), UPMC Professor of Computer Science at CMU, ex-Director of AI research at @Apple, co-founder Perceptual Machines (acquired by Apple)
Marlos C. Machado @marloscmachado.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta. Amii Fellow, Canada CIFAR AI chair. ML researcher. All things reinforcement learning. Photo by Ampersand Grey.
📍 Edmonton, Canada 🇨🇦
🔗 https://mcmachado.github.io/
🗓️ Joined November, 2024
Johan S Obando 👍🏽 @johanobandoc.bsky.social Graduate student @Mila_Quebec @UMontrealDIRO | RL/Deep Learning/AI | De Cali/Colombia pal’ Mundo 🇨🇴 | #JuntosProsperamos⚡#TogetherWeThrive| 🌱🌎
Alex Lewandowski @alexlewandowski.bsky.social PhD candidate studying learning algorithms
Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social Research Scientist at DeepMind. Opinions my own. Inventor of GANs. Lead author of http://www.deeplearningbook.org . Founding chairman of www.publichealthactionnetwork.org
Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social Working towards the safe development of AI for the benefit of all at Université de Montréal, LawZero and Mila.
A.M. Turing Award Recipient and most-cited AI researcher.
https://lawzero.org/en
https://yoshuabengio.org/profile/
Shibhansh Dohare @shibhansh.bsky.social AI researcher at University of Alberta.
https://shibhansh.github.io/
Lucas Beyer (bl16) @giffmana.ai Researcher (OpenAI. Ex: DeepMind, Brain, RWTH Aachen), Gamer, Hacker, Belgian.
Anon feedback: https://admonymous.co/giffmana
📍 Zürich, Suisse 🔗 http://lucasb.eyer.be
RLDM @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social The Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making.
11-14 June 2025.
Trinity College Dublin.
https://rldm.org/
David Abel @dabelcs.bsky.social Scientist @ DeepMind and Honorary Fellow @ U of Edinburgh.
RL, agency, philosophy, foundations, alignment.
https://david-abel.github.io
Dylan Foster 🐢 @djfoster.bsky.social Principal Researcher in AI/ML/RL Theory @ Microsoft Research NE/NYC. Previously @ MIT, Cornell. http://dylanfoster.net
RL Theory Lecture Notes: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.16730
Pablo Samuel Castro @pcastr.bsky.social Señor swesearcher @ Google DeepMind, adjunct prof at Université de Montréal and Mila. Musician. From 🇪🇨 living in 🇨🇦.
https://psc-g.github.io/
Kim Stachenfeld, PhD @neurokim.bsky.social Neuro + AI Research Scientist at DeepMind; Affiliate Professor at Columbia Center for Theoretical Neuroscience.
Likes studying learning+memory, hippocampi, and other things brains have and do, too.
she/her.
Lerrel Pinto @lerrelpinto.com Assistant Professor of CS @nyuniversity.
I like robots!
Ulyana Piterbarg @upiter.bsky.social senior research scientist, Gemini
https://upiterbarg.github.io/
Harshit Sikchi @harshitsikchi.bsky.social Research @OpenAI. I study Reinforcement Learning. PhD from UT Austin. Previously FAIR Paris, Meta US, NVIDIA, CMU, and IIT Kharagpur.
Website: https://hari-sikchi.github.io/
Jascha Sohl-Dickstein @jascha.sohldickstein.com Recently a principal scientist at Google DeepMind. Joining Anthropic. Most (in)famous for inventing diffusion models. AI + physics + neuroscience + dynamical systems.
Reinforcement Learning Conference @rl-conference.bsky.social Information and updates about RLC 2026 at Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from August 16 to 19.
https://rl-conference.cc
Mandana Samiei @mandanas.bsky.social PhD candidate at McGill and Mila - Quebec AI Institute w/ Blake Richards and Doina Precup.
Interested in Reinforcement Learning, Continual Learning and Human Cognition.
Based in Montreal. 🇨🇦
Yuda Song @yus167.bsky.social PhD at Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University | Interactive Decision Making | https://yudasong.github.io
Melrose Roderick @melroseroderick.bsky.social 
Jeff Clune @jeffclune.com Professor, Computer Science, University of British Columbia. CIFAR AI Chair, Vector Institute. Senior Advisor, DeepMind. ML, AI, deep RL, deep learning, AI-Generating Algorithms (AI-GAs), open-endedness. 
Alex Nichol @unixpickle.bsky.social Code, AI, and 3D printing. Opinions are my own, not my computer's...for now. Co-creator of DALL-E 2. Researcher @openai.
James MacGlashan @jmac-ai.bsky.social Ask me about Reinforcement Learning
Research @ Sony AI
AI should learn from its experiences, not copy your data.
My website for answering RL questions: https://www.decisionsanddragons.com/
Views and posts are my own.
Raymond Chua @raymondrchua.bsky.social NeuroAI PhD Candidate at McGill / Mila.
Loves: 🧠 🏕️ 🏔️ 🏊🏻♂️ 🚴🏻♂️ 🏃🏻♂️ 🎨📚☕
https://raymondchua.github.io
Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social Eternal learner, incorrigible thinker. Roaming AI researcher, maker, idea generator. Sometimes I even complete things. Eventually. Best known for infectious enthusiasm and irrepressible outbursts. My laughter is with me, not at you. Cis settler ally.
Glen Berseth @glenberseth.bsky.social Assistant Prof at @UMontreal @mila-quebec.bsky.social @MontrealRobots
. CIFAR AI Chair, RL_Conference chair. Creating generalist problem-solving agents for the real world. He/him/il.
Claas Voelcker @cvoelcker.bsky.social For professional, see https://cvoelcker.de
If I seem very angry, check if I have been watered in the last 24 hours.
Now 🇺🇸 flavoured, previously available in 🇨🇦 and 🇩🇪- E Esra'a Saleh @esraasaleh.bsky.social Research in AI / ML / RL @Mila_Quebec / @UMontreal, formerly research @Ualberta, @AmiiThinks, @rlai_lab
Kris D. @kris.pengy.ca Research Fellow @ http://openmindresearch.org interested in AI, robotics, and penguins—dabbles with game development, pixel art, speedrunning, and speedcubing.
http://kris.pengy.ca 🐧
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Lucas Alegre @lnalegre.bsky.social Professor at INF - @ufrgs.br | Ph.D. in Computer Science. I am interested in multi-policy reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms.
Personal page: https://lucasalegre.github.io
Alex Irpan @alexirpan.bsky.social Research Scientist @ Google DeepMind. Formerly Robotics, now AI Safety. Has a blog. Views are my own.
Chris Olah @colah.bsky.social Reverse engineering neural networks at Anthropic. Previously Distill, OpenAI, Google Brain.Personal account.
Mike Johanson @mikebjohanson.johanson.ca Rogue game theorist and RL scientist in 🇨🇦. Formerly: co-founder Artificial.Agency, RS DeepMind, PhD UAlberta, Poker AI. Gaming 🎮🎲, curling 🥌, knitting 🧶, geocaching 🗺️. (he/him).
Charlie Marsh @crmarsh.com Building Astral: Ruff, uv, and other high-performance Python tools, written in Rust.
Sasha Rush @srushnlp.bsky.social Professor, Programmer in NYC.
Cornell, Hugging Face 🤗
@rogergrosse.bsky.social @rogergrosse.bsky.social 
Brandon Amos @bdamos.bsky.social 🧙🏻♀️ scientist at Meta NYC | http://bamos.github.io
Patrick Kidger @patrickkidger.bsky.social 🚀 Doing something new. Curing uncured diseases.
🧪 antibodies+AI, neural ODEs, open-source JAX ecosystem.
👨💻 ex-{Cradle, Google, Oxford}.
📍 Zürich, Switzerland
Gokul Swamy @gokul.dev PhD student at @cmurobotics.bsky.social working on efficient algorithms for interactive learning (e.g. imitation / RL / RLHF). no model is an island. prefers email. https://gokul.dev/. on the job market!
Scott Niekum @scottniekum.bsky.social Associate prof @ UMass Amherst CICS.
AIignment, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and robotics.