RL in Big Worlds @rlcbigworlds.bsky.social A workshop to promote research in Big Worlds @rl-conference.bsky.social 2026, where the environment 🌍 is much bigger than the agent 🤖
https://rlinbigworlds.ca/
Matthew Turk @matthewturk.bsky.social President, TTIC
Professor
Nick Tomlin @nickatomlin.bsky.social Assistant professor at TTIC. Previously: faculty fellow at NYU, PhD student at Berkeley, undergrad at Brown University. Natural language processing. He/him.
🌐 nickatomlin.github.io
Ali Vakilian @avakilian.bsky.social Research Assistant Professor at TTIC; PhD at MIT EECS; MS
at UIUC.
Working on Algorithms and Machine Learning.
http://www.mit.edu/~vakilian/
TTIC @tticconnect.bsky.social Challenging the Foundation of Computer Science. ttic.edu
Saksham Jain @sakshamj.bsky.social PhD student at UW Stats; causal ML, nonparametrics, high-dimensional statistics, bandits and RL
Lars van der Laan @larsvanderlaan3.bsky.social Postdoc @Stanford | Ph.D. @UW Statistics | ML Research @Netflix — Machine learning, semiparametric statistics, causal inference, and reinforcement learning.
https://larsvanderlaan.github.io
Kenny Peng @kennypeng.bsky.social CS PhD student at Cornell Tech. Interested in interactions between algorithms and society. Princeton math '22.
kennypeng.me
Seth Lazar @sethlazar.org Philosopher working on AI alignment, governance and adaptation
Lab: https://mintresearch.org
Self: https://sethlazar.org
Newsletter: https://philosophyofcomputing.substack.com
Jessie Finocchiaro @jessiefin.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Boston College. Somewhere between ML theory and EconCS
www.jessiefin.com
awni.bsky.social @awni.bsky.social phd student @ yale statistics & data science
studying the foundations of machine intelligence
awni.xyz
Prajjwal @taoprajjwal.bsky.social 💻 • CS PhD @nyutandon @nyuabudhabi
taoprajjwal.github.io
Gon Buzaglo @gbuzaglo.bsky.social PhD student @ Princeton 🐯 ML theory
https://www.buzaglo.me/
Dean Foster @dean-foster.bsky.social RL, LLM, statistics: yea, I'm a scientist.
Marty Puterman @martypute.bsky.social Researcher on MDPs and RL. Retired prof. #orms #rl
roon @tszzl.bsky.social
Michael Hahn @m-hahn.bsky.social Prof at Saarland. NLP and machine learning.
Theory and interpretability of LLMs.
https://www.mhahn.info
John Watrous @johnwatrous.bsky.social Quantum computing educator and researcher. I like math, computer games, and dub techno.
Kate Donahue @kpaxdonahue.bsky.social MIT postdoc, incoming UIUC CS prof
katedonahue.me
Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social Assistant professor at Cornell Psychology Department. CoCoCo Lab (Cornell Computational Cognition Lab) @co3lab.bsky.social. I am recruiting!
Igor Gilitschenski @igilitschenski.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Computer Science at UofT.
Axel Brunnbauer @axelbrunnbauer.bsky.social RL @ Amazon RIVR
Miguel Alonso Jr. @miguelalonsojr.bsky.social Building generally intelligent agents - ML, RL, Robotics
Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social Principal Research Scientist at IBM Research AI in New York. Speech, Formal/Natural Language Processing. Currently LLM post-training, structured SDG and RL. Opinions my own and non stationary.
ramon.astudillo.com
Ed Clark @clarkai.bsky.social PhD student studying AI for tactical decision making in complex ocean environments @uniofbath.bsky.social
Distinctly amateur cyclist, triathlete, sailor, climber
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WE-zZMoAAAAJ&hl=en
Tom Jurgenson @tomjur.bsky.social Researcher: reinforcement learning, planning, robotics.
Vincent Francois-Lavet @vinfl.bsky.social Assistant Professor in machine learning @VUAmsterdam
Abstract representations+reinforcement learning.
Rupesh Srivastava @rupspace.bsky.social AI Researcher. (Co)developed Highway Networks, Upside-Down RL, Bayesian Flow Networks, EvoTorch
📜 Learning is compression
https://rupeshks.cc/
Daniel Brown @daniel-brown.bsky.social CS assistant prof @Utah. Researches human-robot interaction, human-in-the-loop ML, AI safety and alignment. https://users.cs.utah.edu/~dsbrown/
Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social Large-Scale Robot Decision Making @GoogleDeepMind European @ELLISforEurope - imitation interaction transfer - priors: @oxfordrobots @berkeley_ai @ETH @MIT
Miguel Suau @miguelsuau.bsky.social Machine Teacher. Research Scientist at Phaidra. PhD from TU Delft. Previously JP Morgan, Huawei, Unity.
https://www.suau.io/
Georg Ostrovski @gostrovski.bsky.social Research Engineer @ Google DeepMind
Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social Neuroevolution, Collective Intelligence, Self-organization
Jaime Fernández Fisac @jfisac.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Princeton ECE
Safe Human-Centered Robotics and AI
Audrey Durand @audurand.bsky.social Associate professor @ Université Laval - IID - Mila
Interested in reinforcement learning, bandits, partial monitoring, active learning, ... anything that learns by getting its own data from the environment!
hardmaru @hardmaru.bsky.social Co-Founder & CEO, Sakana AI 🎏 → @sakanaai.bsky.social
Visit → https://sakana.ai/
Chris Lu @chris-lu.bsky.social Research @ OpenAI, Prev PhD at Oxford University
André Biedenkapp @abiedenkapp.bsky.social Subgroup Lead at the University of Freiburg researching generalizability of RL and Automated RL
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
Costa Huang @vwxyzjn.bsky.social RL + LLM @ai2.bsky.social; main dev of https://cleanrl.dev/
Matteo Bettini @matteobettini.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Cambridge | ex Meta, Amazon | Studying diversity in multi-agent and multi-robot learning
https://matteobettini.com/
Ishan Durugkar @idurugkar.bsky.social Reinforcement learning researcher, dabbled in robotics, and generative techniques that were later made out of date by diffusion. Currently at Sony AI, working on game AI
Daphne Cornelisse @daphne-cornelisse.bsky.social Multi-agent simulation & RL | https://www.daphne-cornelisse.com/
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
Raghu Rajan @raghuspacerajan.bsky.social PhD / PostDoc in Reinforcement Learning, AutoRL at the University of Freiburg.
First author of MDP Playground.
Opinions posted here are my own.
Anastasiia Pedan @pedanana.bsky.social
Raj Ghugare @raj-ghugare.bsky.social PhD student at Princeton University
James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social I’m a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School.
One of "a number of very informative people." -WSJ
Amir Mesbah @amirmesbah.bsky.social Graduate Student - Interested in RL and its mathematics 👾
> https://amirhosein-mesbah.github.io/
Milind Tambe @milindtambe-ai.bsky.social @Harvard Professor & Director Ctr for Computation & Society
@HCRCS
@GoogleDeepMind
Principal Scientist & Director for AI for Social Good
#AIforSocialGood #AIforSocialImpact #AIforhealth #AIforConservation
Valentio Iverson @viverson03.bsky.social
Argyris Mouzakis @argymouz.bsky.social PhD Student @ UWaterloo, Interested in TCS + Stats/ML and Differential Privacy
https://argymouz.github.io/
Ramchandran Muthukumar @ram-cha.bsky.social CS PhD @ Johns Hopkins.
Interested in everything mathematical. Researcher in machine learning theory, adversarial robustness.
Richa Rastogi @richrast.bsky.social CS PhD-ing @Cornell
richrast.github.io
Chen Wu @chenhenrywu.bsky.social PhD student @CMU | Prev. undergrad @Tsinghua
https://chenwu.io/
Michal Valko @misovalko.bsky.social Founding Researcher @ Isara Labs & Inria & MVA. Ex: Llama @AIatMeta; Gemini and BYOL @GoogleDeepMind. LLMs, RL, alignment.
David Boetius @davidboe.bsky.social - D David Bau @davidbau.bsky.social Interpretable Deep Networks. http://baulab.info/ @davidbau
Kyle Kastner @kastnerkyle.bsky.social computers and music are (still) fun
Leqi Liu @leqiliu.bsky.social AI/ML Researcher | Assistant Professor at UT Austin | Postdoc at Princeton PLI | PhD, Machine Learning Department, CMU. Research goal: Building controllable machine intelligence that serves humanity safely. leqiliu.github.io
@chloesu07.bsky.social @chloesu07.bsky.social CS PhD student @ Harvard/Kempner Institute
Matej Jusup @matejjusup.bsky.social • A PhD in multi-agent reinforcement learning at ETH Zurich
• A chess enthusiast - 2585 Elo @Chesscom)
• Developed the first language model at Google DeepMind capable of playing the game at near super-human level (3200 Elo).
Abigail @abigailgentle.com CS PhD at @sydney.edu.au. Working on Differential Privacy. Interested in TCS and maths, particularly learning, testing and statistics
Jenny Shen @jennyshen056.bsky.social 1st year CS PhD student @UCSD
Danfei Xu @danfei.bsky.social Assistant Prof. at Georgia Tech | NVIDIA AI | Making robots smarter
Sagnik Anupam @sagnikanupam.bsky.social CIS PhD at Penn | MIT CS + Math '24
sagnikanupam.com
PhD student working on AI reasoning in large multimodal models. I design methods to build better models for math, code, visual reasoning, agents, and robotics.
Ji Won Park @ji-won-park.bsky.social Principal ML Scientist at Prescient Design, Genentech. https://jiwoncpark.github.io
Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social Distinguished Prof of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Guggenheim Fellow, Author of The Unity of Perception (OUP 2018), http://tinyurl.com/2p8ttuux
perception, cognition, self-governance in biological and AI systems.🤖🧠👩🔬🧪
http://susannaschellenberg.org
EWRL @ewrl-org.bsky.social This is the official account of EWRL 19 - European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning
Official website: https://ewrl-org.github.io/ewrl-2026/index.html
Chara Podimata @charapod.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Statistics, MIT. Interested in social computing, human-in-the-loop of AI decision making, recommendation systems, and AI policy.
@karthiksurya2265.bsky.social @karthiksurya2265.bsky.social
Debabrota Basu @debabrotabasu.bsky.social Researcher-Writer-Traveller
On a journey to develop Theoretically-grounded Responsible AI.
Inria, CNRS, Univ. Lille, ELLIS Scholar- Paris.
https://debabrota-basu.github.io/
Moksh Jain @jainmoksh.bsky.social PhD student at Université de Montréal and Mila
https://mj10.github.io/
Hannah Waters @hanner.bsky.social senior editor @quantamagazine.org covering biology | former climate editor at Audubon | send story tips and pitches: hwaters@quantamagazine.org | quantamagazine.org/biology
work portfolio: hanjeanwat.com/about
Yasemin Saplakoglu @yaseminsaplakoglu.bsky.social Biology writer at @quantamagazine.bsky.social
Charlie Wood @walkingthedot.bsky.social Physics staff writer @QuantaMagazine, R(ecovering)PCV, exJET, language enthusiast. SHERP36. formerly @PopSci, @csmonitor
He/him
Natalie Wolchover @nattyover.bsky.social Physics journalist at Quanta Magazine.
Matt Carlstrom @mattcarlstrom.bsky.social Magazine guy. Director of Audience and Digital Operations at @vanityfair.com
Formerly @quantamagazine.bsky.social
Thoughts expressed here are my own and not that of my employer.
mark belan | science illustrator + info designer @markabelan.bsky.social telling science stories with the power of visuals✨ a little bit of this and that, too
🧳 Graphics Editor | Quanta Magazine
🎓 MScBMC, MScGeochem/Astrobio
🎨 Founder of artscistudios
📍 NYC | 🇨🇦🇭🇷
https://linktr.ee/artscistudios
Simone Barr @simonebarr.bsky.social audience producer @ quanta magazine
imbuing scientific research with a sense of excitement and urgency.
also writes short fiction.
Shalma Wegsman @shalmawegs.bsky.social Staff writer at Quanta Magazine covering math
Previously creator/co-host of the ‘Why This Universe?’ podcast
shalmawegsman.com
Samir Patel @pateljournalist.bsky.social Editor in Chief, Quanta Magazine
Arleen Santana @adastraarleen.bsky.social 🔭 Amateur Astronomer
💻 Web Producer @ Quanta Magazine
Kristina Armitage @kristina-armitage.bsky.social designer / illustrator @ quanta magazine- S @simonfrantz.bsky.social @simonfrantz.bsky.social
Jordana Cepelewicz @jordanacep.bsky.social Math and science journalist at @quantamagazine.bsky.social
Michael Moyer @mmoyer.bsky.social Executive editor quantamagazine.org
Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org Illuminating math and science. Supported by the Simons Foundation. 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. www.quantamagazine.org
Chris J. Maddison @cmaddis.bsky.social Asst. Prof. in Machine Learning at UofT. #LongCOVID patient.
https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~cmaddis/
Tom Everitt @tom4everitt.bsky.social AGI safety researcher at Google DeepMind, leading causalincentives.com
Personal website: tomeveritt.se
@neelnanda.bsky.social @neelnanda.bsky.social
Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social Professor, researcher, maker of things
Michael Bowling @michaelhbowling.bsky.social Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. Interested in AI, reinforcement learning, and games of all sorts.
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.
TCS+ @tcsplus.bsky.social TCS+ is the original online seminar in theoretical computer science, committed to the carbon-free dissemination of ideas across the globe since 2013. Talks from the cutting edge of research in TCS, for a wide audience: https://www.tcsplus.org
@let-all.com @let-all.com
Nutan Limaye @nutanlimaye.bsky.social
Connor Lawless @lawlessopt.bsky.social Stanford MS&E Postdoc | Human-Centered AI & OR
Prev: @CornellORIE @MSFTResearch, @IBMResearch, @uoftmie 🌈
Ilya Razenshteyn @ilyaraz.bsky.social Free soul
Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social