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/
Zed @zed.dev A next-generation code editor that enables high-performance collaboration with AI and your team.
zed.dev
Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at Lancaster Uni, UK. Exploring macrobehaviour using coral reefs as a model system, interested in all things data sciencey. #MacrobehaviourLab https://sallykeith.weebly.com/
@dsailu.bsky.social @dsailu.bsky.social 
Hello Robot @hellorobot.bsky.social Building the future of mobile manipulation
Andrรฉ Biedenkapp @abiedenkapp.bsky.social Subgroup Lead at the University of Freiburg researching generalizability of RL and Automated RL
Artificial.Agency @artificial-agency.bsky.social The behavior engine driving the future of interactive digital entertainment.
Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social A LLN - large language Nathan - (RL, RLHF, society, robotics), athlete, yogi, chef
Writes http://interconnects.ai
Prev Ai2/Olmo, HuggingFace, Berkeley, and normal places
Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social Principal Researcher @ Microsoft Research.
AI, RL, cog neuro, philosophy.
www.momen-nejad.org
Prithviraj "Raj" Ammanabrolu @rajammanabrolu.bsky.social AI, RL, NLP, Games Asst Prof at UCSD
Research Scientist at Nvidia
Lab: http://pearls.ucsd.edu
Personal: prithvirajva.com
Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social AI and Games Researcher at NYU. Head of AI at Nof1.
Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University
https://gershmanlab.com/
Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social web: http://maxim.ece.illinois.edu
substack: https://realizable.substack.com
Antonin Raffin @araffin.bsky.social Researcher in robotics and machine learning (Reinforcement Learning). Maintainer of Stable-Baselines (SB3).
https://araffin.github.io/
Steve Byrnes @stevebyrnes.bsky.social Researching Artificial General Intelligence Safety, via thinking about neuroscience and algorithms, at Astera Institute. https://sjbyrnes.com/agi.html- T Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social Safe and robust AI/ML, computational sustainability. Former President AAAI and IMLS. Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Oregon State University. https://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~tgd/
angela zhou @angelamczhou.bsky.social assistant prof at USC Data Sciences and Operations and Computer Science; phd Cornell ORIE.
data-driven decision-making, operations research/management, causal inference, algorithmic fairness/equity
bureaucratic justice warrior
angelamzhou.github.io
Robin Ranjit Singh Chauhan @robinchauhan.bsky.social Host TalkRL Podcast, Aspiring RL researcher
AgFunder VC Head of Eng, Ex-MSFT, Waterloo computer engineering
Sunshine Coast BC Canada
Peter Henderson @peterhenderson.bsky.social Assistant Professor, leading the Polaris Lab @ Princeton (https://www.polarislab.org/); Researching: RL, Strategic Decision-Making+Exploration; Law
Miguel Vasco @miguelvasco.bsky.social Postdoc at @kthuniversity.bsky.social.
Past: @gaipslab.bsky.social; Sony AI.
Interested in all things RL and Multimodal.
miguelvasco.com
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
Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social Researcher at Google and CIFAR Fellow, working on the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience in Montrรฉal (academic affiliations: @mcgill.ca and @mila-quebec.bsky.social).
Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social Abolish the value function!
Dylan Hadfield-Menell @dhadfieldmenell.bsky.social Assistant Prof of AI & Decision-Making @MIT EECS
I run the Algorithmic Alignment Group (https://algorithmicalignment.csail.mit.edu/) in CSAIL.
I work on value (mis)alignment in AI systems.
https://people.csail.mit.edu/dhm/
Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD @lauraabusta.bsky.social ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ฌ Postdoc @U Medical Center Groningen. Formerly: postdoc @WashU St. Louis & Neuro PhD @Princeton, researching cognitive control & decision making, neurodivergent in computational psychiatry, she/her, Latina ๐จ๐บ. Views my own. Stand Up for Science!
Sai Prasanna @saiprasanna.in See(k)ing the surreal
Causal World Models for Curious Robots @ University of Tรผbingen/Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems ๐ฉ๐ช
#reinforcementlearning #robotics #causality #meditation #vegan
Karim Farid @kifarid.bsky.social PhD. Student @ELLIS.eu @UniFreiburg with Thomas Brox and Cordelia Schmid
Understanding intelligence and cultivating its societal benefits
https://kifarid.github.io
Taylor W. Killian @twkillian.bsky.social Principal Scientist @LilaSciences. Focused on decision making under uncertainty, guided by practical problems in healthcare, reasoning, and biology.
Gaspard Lambrechts @gsprd.be Postdoctoral researcher working on RL in POMDP at McGill and Mila - gsprd.be
Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social Writing about robots https://itcanthink.substack.com/
RoboPapers podcast https://robopapers.substack.com/
All opinions my own
Michiel van de Panne @mvandepanne.bsky.social UBC Computer Science; physics-based models of human movement; deep reinforcement learning; animation; robotics
Mike Johanson @mikebjohanson.johanson.ca Rogue game theorist and reinforcement learning scientist in ๐จ๐ฆ. Formerly: co-founder Artificial.Agency, RS DeepMind, PhD UAlberta, Poker AI. Gaming ๐ฎ๐ฒ, curling ๐ฅ, knitting ๐งถ, geocaching ๐บ๏ธ. (he/him).
Vincent Mai @vincentmai.bsky.social ML research scientist @LawZero
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
Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social CS / AI / ML PhD. ๐ง๐ท โพ๏ธ
Working on meta-learning, continual learning, control, evo, RL, game AI.
Hobbyist game dev.
Local news and useless facts about my life in PT-BR. EN otherwise.
Willie Neiswanger @willieneis.bsky.social Assistant Professor in CS + AI at USC. Previously at Stanford, CMU. Machine Learning, Decision Making, AI-for-Science, Generative AI, ML Systems, LLMs.
https://willieneis.github.io
Paul Masset @paulmasset.bsky.social Assistant Professor, McGill University | Associate Academic Member, Mila - Quebec AI Institute | Neuroscience and AI, learning and inference, dopamine and cognition
https://massetlab.org/
Sikata Sengupta @sikatasengupta.bsky.social cs phd @upenn advised by Michael Kearns, Aaron Roth, and Duncan Watts| previously @stanford | she/her
https://psamathe50.github.io/sikatasengupta/
Phillip Isola @phillipisola.bsky.social Associate Professor in EECS at MIT. Neural nets, generative models, representation learning, computer vision, robotics, cog sci, AI.
https://web.mit.edu/phillipi/
Scott Niekum @scottniekum.bsky.social Associate prof @ UMass Amherst CICS.
AIignment, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and robotics.
C. Zhang w/o shitpost @chongzhang.bsky.social Stupid #robotics guy at ETHz
Twitter: https://x.com/ChongZzZhang
Research Website: https://zita-ch.github.io/
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!
Daniel Fried @daniel-fried.bsky.social Assistant prof at LTI CMU. Working on NLP: language interfaces, applied pragmatics, language-to-code, grounding. https://dpfried.github.io/
Isadora White @izzycw.bsky.social PhD Student at UC San Diego | LLM Agents, Reinforcement Learning, Human-AI Collaboration, Multi-Agent Systems
Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com LM/NLP/ML researcher ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
yoavartzi.com / associate professor @ Cornell CS + Cornell Tech campus @ NYC / nlp.cornell.edu / visiting researcher @ Google DeepMind / building @colmweb.org / previously associate faculty director @ arXiv.org
Dongyan Lin @dongyanl1n.bsky.social Postdoc at Meta FAIR, Comp Neuro PhD @McGill / Mila. Looking at the representation in brains and machines ๐ฌ https://dongyanl1n.github.io/
Vahid Behzadan @behzadan.bsky.social Professionally curious about the science of making bad decisions; AI safety and security researcher; Assistant Professor of CS and Data Science & Director of the Secure and Assured Intelligent Learning (SAIL) lab @ University of New Haven.
Lerrel Pinto @lerrelpinto.com Assistant Professor of CS @nyuniversity.
I like robots!
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.
Serena Booth @reniebird.bsky.social CS Prof at Brown University, PI of the GIRAFFE lab, former AI Policy Advisor in the US Senate, co-chair of the ACM Tech Policy Subcommittee on AI and Algorithms.
PhD at MIT CSAIL '23, Harvard '16, former Google APM. Dog mom to Ducki.
Mattie Fellows @mattieml.bsky.social Reinforcement Learning Postdoc at FLAIR, University of Oxford @universityofoxford.bsky.social
All opinions are my own.
Cฤtฤlina Cangea, PhD @catalinacangea.bsky.social ex-GenMusic co-lead @ DeepMind ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ป
๐ธ๐น, prog/metal/alt/classic rock, jazz, poetry, ๐ฃ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ด๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ง๐ปโโ๏ธ, traveling, festivals. Sometimes โค๏ธs AI/ML/data ๐ Attends too many concerts ๐ซ King's/Darwin/Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge ๐
Victoria Dean (she/they) @vdean.bsky.social Teaching Faculty @ Princeton University | CMU, MIT alum | reinforcement learning, AI ethics, equity and justice, baking | ADHD ๐๐๐
Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social AI professor at Caltech. General Chair ICLR 2025.
http://www.yisongyue.com
Soumith Chintala @soumithchintala.bsky.social Cofounded and lead PyTorch at Meta. Also dabble in robotics at NYU.
AI is delicious when it is accessible and open-source.
http://soumith.ch
Zico Kolter @zicokolter.bsky.social Professor and Head of Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon. Board member OpenAI. Chief Technical Advisor Gray Swan AI. Chief Expert Bosch Research.
Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social Professor at UT Nuremberg, Germany
Iโm ๐ซ๐ท and I work on RL and lifelong learning. Mostly posting on ML related topics.
Jonathan Balloch @balloch.bsky.social Robotics PhD Candidate @GeorgiaTech studying #RL and
#AI
I mostly tweet about #AI, #robots, #science, and #3dprinting
My thoughts and opinions are my own.
jballoch.com
Antoine Moulin @antoine-mln.bsky.social doing a phd in RL/online learning on questions related to exploration and adaptivity
> https://antoine-moulin.github.io/
Tim G. J. Rudner @timrudner.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Toronto.
Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge.
AI Fellow, Georgetown University.
Probabilistic Machine Learning, AI Safety & AI Governance.
Prev: Oxford, Yale, UC Berkeley, NYU.
https://timrudner.com
Bram Grooten @bramgrooten.bsky.social PhD student at the TU Eindhoven. Researching deep learning, RL, sparse neural networks, robotics.
Tom Ringstrom @noreward4u.bsky.social Reward-Free Model-based Maximalist. High-dimensional Empowerment. Self-Preserving Autonomous Agents. Theories of intelligence grounded in compositional control.
Tom Dupuis @tomdupuis.bsky.social autonomating software manufacturing @ The Open Engine Company
https://theopenengine.com/
previously: voice agents, deep RL, representation learning, robotics
Jorge Mendez-Mendez @jmendezm.bsky.social Embodied lifelong learning (compositionality, RL, TAMP, robotics). Assistant Professor at Stony Brook ECE. Postdoc at MIT CSAIL, PhD from GRASP lab at Penn.
https://jorge-a-mendez.github.io
Raymond Chua @raymondrchua.bsky.social NeuroAI PhD Candidate at McGill / Mila.
Loves: ๐ง ๐๏ธ ๐๏ธ ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ ๐ด๐ปโโ๏ธ ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ ๐จ๐โ
https://raymondchua.github.io
Daniel Jiang @danielrjiang.bsky.social Research Scientist Meta, Adjunct Professor at University of Pittsburgh. Interested in reinforcement learning, approximate DP, adaptive experimentation, Bayesian optimization, & operations research. http://danielrjiang.github.io
๐Chicago, IL
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. ๐จ๐ฆ
Roy Fox @royf.org Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UC Irvine
Website: royf.org
vmoens @vmoens.bsky.social Member of technical staff @periodiclabs
Open-source/open science advocate
Maintainer of torchrl / tensordict / leanrl
Former MD - Neuroscience PhD
https://github.com/vmoens
Sasha Abramowitz @sash-4.bsky.social Research engineer at InstaDeep working on multi-agent RL
Gergely Neu @neu-rips.bsky.social full-time ML theory nerd, part-time AI-non enthusiast
Andreas Krause @arkrause.bsky.social Professor at ETH Zurich
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 
Brad Knox @bradknox.bsky.social Research Associate Professor in CS at UT Austin. I research how humans can specify aligned reward functions.
Abhishek Gupta @abhishekunique7.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Visiting Faculty, NVIDIA
Ph.D. from Berkeley, Postdoc MIT
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~abhgupta
I like robots and reinforcement learning :)
Finbarr @finbarr.bsky.social building the future
research at midjourney, deepmind. slinging ai hot takes ๐ฅat artfintel.com
Mohamad H. Danesh @modanesh.bsky.social CS PhD @mcgill.ca and @mila-quebec.bsky.social, working on ๐ and ๐ค stuff
ex- @LetsUnifyAI, @NUSComputing, @EngineeringOSU
https://modanesh.github.io/
๐ Montreal, Canada
Mirco Mutti @mircomutti.bsky.social Reinforcement learning, but without rewards.
Postdoc at the Technion. PhD from Politecnico di Milano.
https://muttimirco.github.io
Reinforcement Learning Conference @rl-conference.bsky.social Information and updates about RLC 2026 at Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from August 15 to 18.
https://rl-conference.cc
Dylan Cope @dylancope.bsky.social Researching multi-agent RL, emergent communication, and evolutionary computation.
Postdoc at FLAIR Oxford. PhD from Safe and Trusted AI CDT @ KCL/Imperial. Previously visiting researcher at CHAI U.C. Berkeley.
dylancope.com
he/him
London ๐ฌ๐ง
Dylan Foster ๐ข @djfoster.bsky.social Incoming Assistant Professor in EECS and Statistics at UC Berkeley.
Principal Researcher @ Microsoft Research NE/NYC. Previously @ MIT, Cornell.
AI + RL Foundations. RL Theory Lecture Notes: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.16730
http://dylanfoster.net
Francesco Tudisco @ftudisco.bsky.social Machine Learning @ University of Edinburgh | AI4Science | optimization | numerics | networks | co-founder @ labs.miniml.ai | ftudisco.gitlab.io
Daniil Tiapkin @dtiapkin.bsky.social PhD student at รcole polytechnique and Universitรฉ Paris-Saclay ๐ซ๐ท
Reinforcement Learning enjoyer, sometimes even with human feedback
Ex. student-researcher at Google DeepMind Paris
๐ https://d-tiapkin.github.io/
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
๐ Learning is compression
https://rupeshks.cc/
Akanksha Saran @RSS2026 โ๏ธ @akanksha-saran.bsky.social AI. RL. Robots+Humans. Building general purpose agents.
Research Scientist at Adobe Research.
https://asaran.github.io/
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/
Florent Delgrange @florentdelgrange.bsky.social Reinforcement Learner
delgrange.me
Cong Lu @cong-ml.bsky.social Research Scientist @ Google DeepMind, in open-ended learning, and AI for Scientific Discovery.
Miguel Suau @miguelsuau.bsky.social Machine Teacher. Research Scientist at Phaidra. PhD from TU Delft. Previously JP Morgan, Huawei, Unity.
https://www.suau.io/
Csaba Szepesvari @skiandsolve.bsky.social โท๏ธ ML Theorist carving equations and mountain trails | ๐ดโโ๏ธ Biker, Climber, Adventurer | ๐ง Reinforcement Learning: Always seeking higher peaks, steeper walls and better policies.
https://ualberta.ca/~szepesva
Audrey Durand @audurand.bsky.social Associate professor @ Universitรฉ 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 ๐ โ @sakanaai.bsky.social
Visit โ https://sakana.ai/
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/
Stone Tao @stonet2000.bsky.social simulation & research @physical_int
http://stoneztao.com