Keynote #5 Jeff Clune (UBC)

Jeff Clune is an associate professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia and a research manager at OpenAI. Before that, he was a Senior Research Manager and founding member of Uber AI Labs, which was formed after Uber acquired a startup he was a part of. Jeff focuses on deep learning, deep reinforcement learning, and robotics. Prior to Uber, he was the Loy and Edith Harris Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Wyoming. Before that he was a Research Scientist at Cornell University and received degrees from Michigan State University (PhD, master’s) and the University of Michigan (bachelor’s). More on Jeff’s research can be found at JeffClune.com or on Twitter (@jeffclune).