Michal Valko @misovalko.bsky.social Founding Researcher @ Isara Labs & Inria & MVA. Ex: Llama @AIatMeta; Gemini and BYOL @GoogleDeepMind. LLMs, RL, alignment.
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/
Ray Luo @ray-luo.bsky.social Abstraction & RL | Ph.D. Candidate Mila, McGill | Advised by Doina Precup and Xujie Si | He/him | https://zyluo.netlify.app
Tianwei Ni @twni2016.bsky.social https://twni2016.github.io/ Reinforcement Learning PhD student @Mila
Continual RL Workshop @continual-rl.bsky.social ♾️ Continual Reinforcement Learning Workshop @ RLC 2026, Montreal, Canada
https://sites.google.com/view/continual-learning
Haque Ishfaq @hmishfaq.bsky.social PhD student at @mcgillu/ @MILAMontreal. Bandits and Reinforcement Learning. BS, MS @Stanford 🇧🇩🇺🇸🇨🇦 I am on the job market!
https://hmishfaq.github.io/
Dan Roy @roydanroy.bsky.social Research Director, Founding Faculty, Canada CIFAR AI Chair @VectorInst.
Full Prof @UofT - Statistics and Computer Sci. (x-appt) danroy.org
I study assumption-free prediction and decision making under uncertainty, with inference emerging from optimality.
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. 
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
Shagun Sodhani @shagunsodhani.bsky.social FAIR Researcher @metaai.bsky.social Previously Mila-Quebec, Microsoft Research, Adobe Research, IIT Roorkee
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
David Leeftink @davidleeftink.bsky.social PhD student in Machine learning @ Donders Institute Nijmegen | Machine Learning, Control, Reinforcement Learning.
davidleeftink.github.io
Prateek Bhustali @omniscientoctopus.bsky.social Learning to throw a computer at a problem.
PhD student - Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Maintenance Planning @TUDelft | Masters in Computational Sciences in Engineering @TUBraunschweig
Bernhard Jaeger @bernhard-jaeger.bsky.social Co-founder of KE:SAI, a non-profit open science AI research lab.
https://kesai.eu
@cogscikid.bsky.social @cogscikid.bsky.social Kempner Institute research fellow @Harvard
I want to build AI assistants for the human reinforcement learning algorithm.
prev: deepmind, umich, msr
https://cogscikid.com/
Vindula Jayawardana @vindulaj.bsky.social Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute | MIT PhD
Ivy Xueqing Yang @yangivyxq.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Economics & Finance @SIUE | Macroeconomics · Econometrics · Finance | Latent information and credible dynamic counterfactuals | xueqingyang.com
Karim Abdel Sadek @karimabdel.bsky.social Incoming PhD, UC Berkeley
Interested in RL, AI Safety, Cooperative AI, TCS
https://karim-abdel.github.io
Alex Inch @alexinch.bsky.social Interested in open-ended machine learning and agentic systems. Studying a DPhil on world models at Oxford Robotics.
Ruiyi Wang @ruiyiwang.bsky.social 2nd year PhD at UCSD w/ @rajammanabrolu.bsky.social
Prev: @ltiatcmu.bsky.social @umich.edu
Research: Agents🤖, Reasoning🧠, Games👾
@yijieisabelliu.bsky.social @yijieisabelliu.bsky.social 
Alex Irpan @alexirpan.bsky.social Research Scientist @ Google DeepMind. Formerly Robotics, now AI Safety. Has a blog. Views are my own.
@bidiptas13.bsky.social @bidiptas13.bsky.social 
Michael Noukhovitch @mnoukhov.bsky.social PhD in AI @mila-quebec.bsky.social RLHF and language grounding, whatever that means. Whitespace aficianado. mnoukhov.github.io
Nitay Alon @nitalon.bsky.social PhD student (@huji, @maxplanck). Trying to understand the role of Theory of Mind in AGI. Also working on Multi-agent RL, language, and (some) economics.
Juan Agustin Duque @juanduquevan.bsky.social PhD student in Reinforcement Learning (MILA)
Foerster Lab for AI Research @flair-ox.bsky.social ML research group @universityofoxford.bsky.social. Focussed on multi-agent, open-ended, meta and reinforcement learning as well as agent based models. More at http://foersterlab.com.
Princeton Reinforcement Learning Lab @princetonrl.bsky.social The Princeton RL lab aims to develop effective and principled reinforcement learning algorithms and their applications. 🤖🧠💭 Led by @ben-eysenbach.bsky.social
Find us at https://princeton-rl.github.io/
Johan S Obando 👍🏽 @johanobandoc.bsky.social Graduate student @Mila_Quebec @UMontrealDIRO | RL/Deep Learning/AI | De Cali/Colombia pal’ Mundo 🇨🇴 | #JuntosProsperamos⚡#TogetherWeThrive| 🌱🌎
Kunal Jha @kjha02.bsky.social CS PhD Student @University of Washington, CSxPhilosophy @Dartmouth College
Interested in MARL, Social Reasoning, and Collective Decision making in people, machines, and other organisms
kjha02.github.io
Siqi Liu (刘思奇) @liusiqi.bsky.social Staff Research Engineer @ DeepMind
Anastasiia Pedan @pedanana.bsky.social 
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.
Daphne Cornelisse @daphne-cornelisse.bsky.social Multi-agent simulation & RL | https://www.daphne-cornelisse.com/
Matteo Bettini @matteobettini.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Cambridge | ex Meta, Amazon | Studying diversity in multi-agent and multi-robot learning
https://matteobettini.com/
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer @pyoudeyer.bsky.social Research director @Inria, Head of @flowersInria
lab, prev. @MSFTResearch @SonyCSLParis
Artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, sciences of curiosity, language, self-organization, autotelic agents, education, AI and society
http://www.pyoudeyer.com
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. 
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 🐧
Veronica Chelu @veronicachelu.bsky.social postdoc • neuroscience, psychedelics, RL & decision-making, ML @ McGill University / MILA Quebec AI Institute
•past Google DeepMind London / Montreal
https://veronicachelu.github.io
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•meditation enthusiast
•yogi/200h RYT
•handbalancer/contortionist
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.
ELLIS @ellis.eu Strengthening Europe's Leadership in AI through Research Excellence | ellis.eu
Mahi Shafiullah @notmahi.bsky.social Building generally intelligent robots that *just work* everywhere, out of the box, at Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) and Meta FAIR.
Previously at NYU Courant, MIT and visiting researcher at Meta AI.
https://mahis.life/
Lucia Cipolina Kun @luciakun.bsky.social Currently LLM agents at META.
AI researcher in Reinforcement Learning, LLMs and Cultural Heritage.
https://lcipolina.github.io/
Zhaoyang Wang @zhaoyangw.bsky.social Researcher | Agentic AI Foundation Models, Bayesian Optimization, Reinforcement Learning, and AutoML. Uni of Birmingham.
Share the latest AI news. https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhaoyang-w-4995b5269/
Melis İlayda Bal @melisilaydabal.bsky.social PhD student @Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems | working on optimization & game-theoretic frameworks for robust and efficient ML | organizer @twiml.bsky.social | https://melisilaydabal.github.io
Peter Vamplew @amp1874.bsky.social Professor in IT @ Federation Uni. Multi-objective reinforcement learning. Human-aligned AI. Best known for the f*cking mailing list paper. Jambo & Bengals fan. https://t.co/UNoOrbGApz
Núria Armengol @nuriaarmengol.bsky.social ETH/CLS PhD candidate focused on reinforcement learning and sports lover.
Dane Carnegie Malenfant @dvnxmvlhdf5.bsky.social MSc. @mila-quebec.bsky.social and @mcgill.ca in the LiNC lab
Fixating on multi-agent RL, Neuro-AI and decisions
Ēka ē-akimiht
https://danemalenfant.com/
Cansu Sancaktar @cansusancaktar.bsky.social PhD Student @ Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems & University of Tübingen | Working on intrinsically motivated open-ended reinforcement learning 🤖
Michela Petriconi @michelapetriconi.bsky.social PhD student at @unituebingen.bsky.social and IMPRS-IS in "Lifelong Reinforcement Learning" group.
Organizer of @ewrl18.bsky.social and @twiml.bsky.social- Tübingen Women in Machine Learning
Ahmad Beirami @abeirami.bsky.social stealth // Gemini RL+inference @ Google DeepMind // Conversational AI @ Meta // RL Agents @ EA // ML+Information Theory @ MIT+Harvard+Duke // Georgia Tech PhD
📍{NYC, SFO, YYZ}
🔗 https://beirami.github.io/
RL and Video Games Workshop @rlvgworkshop.bsky.social Official account of the Reinforcement Learning and Video Games Workshop at RLC 2026, August 15th.
Call for papers OPEN: https://openreview.net/group?id=rl-conference.cc/RLC/2026/Workshop/RLVG
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/rlvg-2026/
Erin Grant @eringrant.me Assistant Professor @ualberta.bsky.social & Fellow @amiithinks.bsky.social studying cognition in mind & brain with neural nets, Bayes, and other tools (eringrant.github.io).
elsewhere: sigmoid.social/@eringrant, twitter.com/ermgrant @ermgrant
Matt Schlegel @mkschleg.bsky.social AI, RL, and ML researcher. Interested in hard problems which have the potential to improve the world. Currently Postdocing at University of Calgary looking for hard problems in power systems research. Previously @modl.ai @ualberta @borealis.ai @huawei.
Hadi Nekoei @hnekoei.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ Mila/UdeM, Visiting Researcher @ServiceNowResearch
RL for Real Systems @RLC2025 @rl4rsworkshop.bsky.social Workshop on Practical Insights into RL for Real Systems
at RLC 2025, Edmonton, Canada.
https://rl4rs.github.io/RL4RS/
Patrick M. Pilarski @patrickpilarski.bsky.social Professor and Canada CIFAR AI Chair (Amii) at the University of Alberta, Dept. Medicine, BLINCLab. Corporate director. Previously: office co-lead at DeepMind Alberta. https://pilarski.github.io
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.
Mahsa Asadi @llvllahsa.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher,
Human-in-the-loop Decision making
Aalto University, Finland
PhD: Inria Lille, France
Ali Shiravand @alishiravand.bsky.social Doctoral student & Normalien in cognitive neuroscience at the École Normale Supérieure Paris - PSL University, Human Reinforcement Learning Team | Interested in decision modeling & photography
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
Pavel Kolev @pavelkolevbg.bsky.social Postdoc @ University of Tübingen | Reinforcement Learning | Optimization | Information Theory
Koorosh @kooroshmsl.bsky.social I do RL research @UofT
Daniel Palenicek @daniel-palenicek.bsky.social PhD Researcher in Robot #ReinforcementLearning 🤖🧠 at IAS TU Darmstadt and hessian.AI advised by Jan Peters. Former intern at BCAI and Huawei R&D UK.
Nico Bohlinger @nicobohlinger.bsky.social 27 | Morphology-aware Robotics, RL Research | PhD student at @ias-tudarmstadt.bsky.social
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
Cohere Labs @cohereforai.bsky.social @Cohere.com's non-profit research lab and open science initiative that seeks to solve complex machine learning problems. Join us in exploring the unknown, together. https://cohere.com/research
Intelligent Autonomous Systems @ias-tudarmstadt.bsky.social Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group @TUDarmstadt working on Robot Learning, the intersection of robotics and machine learning.
Led by Prof. Jan Peters
https://www.ias.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
Théo Vincent @theo-vincent.bsky.social PhD student working on RL 🤖 @DFKI & @ias-tudarmstadt.bsky.social | Master MVA @ENS_ParisSaclay & ENPC 🎓
https://www.ias.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/Team/TheoVincent
Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social Postdoc @ CMU Machine Learning and Philosophy • Metascience of AI: safeguarding scientific integrity in the age of AI • gbalint.me • 🇭🇺🏴
Aaron Dharna @aadharna.bsky.social PhD Student at UBC under Dr. Jeff Clune. Interested in RL, Generative Modeling, and Games (both for AI and for me)
Massimiliano (Max) Tamborski @max-tamborski.bsky.social PhD Student @cam.ac.uk | RL
https://max-tamborski.github.io
Raul Steleac @raulsteleac.bsky.social PhD Student @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social; studying temporally extended behaviours in both single and multi-agent RL
Bram Renting @bramrenting.bsky.social PhD candidate at Hybrid Intelligence Centre, @UniLeiden & @TUDelft | Multi-Agent Systems, RL, Algorithm Configuration, Negotiation | MSc in CS from @TUDelft
bramrenting.nl
Marc Deisenroth @deisenroth.bsky.social Machine learning, environmental modeling, sustainability, robotics
Research Director @ Google DeepMind, Professor @ UCL
He/him
Shakir Mohamed @shakirm.bsky.social AI, sociotechnical systems, social purpose. Research director at Google DeepMind. Cofounder and Chair at Deep Learning Indaba. FAccT2025 co-program chair. shakirm.com
Adam Jelley @adamjelley.bsky.social Member of Technical Staff / Co-Founder @ General Intuition
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
Pascal Leroy @paleroy.bsky.social Multi-agent reinforcement learning @ULiège
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/
Filippos Christianos @fchristianos.bsky.social Research Scientist studying MARL, LLMs, and AI Agents
ICML Conference @icmlconf.bsky.social Official account of ICML
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
Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) is a new venue for dissemination of machine learning research
https://jmlr.org/tmlr/
Khurram Javed @khurramjaved.com Working on scalable and decentralized algorithms for real-time reinforcement learning. Research scientist @ Keen AGI
Prev - PhD with Richard S. Sutton
Nneka @nnekaokolo4.bsky.social RL Researcher | Postdoctoral Associate @mitidss
Interested in RL theory, stochastic optimisation and online learning.
https://muchay.github.io/- B NeurIPS Blog – NeurIPS conference blog [Unofficial] @blog.neurips.cc.web.brid.gy 🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://blog.neurips.cc/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/blog.neurips.cc
Costa Huang @vwxyzjn.bsky.social RL + LLM @ai2.bsky.social; main dev of https://cleanrl.dev/
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social The world's leading venue for collaborative research in theoretical computer science. Follow us at http://YouTube.com/SimonsInstitute.
Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social Breakthrough AI to solve the world's biggest problems.
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IJCAIconf @ijcai.org IJCAI is the longest-running premier international AI research conference since 1969. 🌍 Connect across domains and feel the pulse of AI. 🗓️ #IJCAI2027❗August 7-13, 2027❗Kyoto, Japan
CoCoMARL-2025 @cocomarl-workshop.bsky.social Coordination and Cooperation in Reinforcement Learning Workshop at RLC 2025
https://sites.google.com/view/cocomarl2025/home
Mathieu Reymond @mreymond.bsky.social #RL Postdoc at Mila - Quebec AI Institute and Université de Montréal
🐘 @pkydrm.bsky.social research scientist @MosaicML x @Databricks re: rlhf, humans in the loop, and figuring out what it means to have a good model 🤖🧑🎨✨ 
RL & Agents Reading Group @rl-agents-rg.bsky.social RL & Agents Reading Group @ University of Edinburgh
We regularly discuss recent papers in RL, MARL & related
https://edinburgh-rl.github.io/reading-group
Akshay L Chandra @acl21.bsky.social PhD Student at the Robot Learning Lab, University of Freiburg.
Reinforcement Learning, World Models and Robot Manipulation.
https://akshaychandra.com
Seth Karten @sethkarten.ai Autonomous Agents | Research @ Prime Intellect | PhD @ Princeton | Prev: CMU, Waymo | NSF GRFP Fellow
https://sethkarten.ai/
Scott Jeen @enjeeneer.io PhD Student at Cambridge University. AI and reinforcement learning.
Oren Neumann @orenneumann.bsky.social Doing RL on autonomous driving, supply chains and board games. Physics PhD from Goethe Uni Frankfurt.