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Tim Rocktäschel

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Director / Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind
📍 London, England, United Kingdom

Tim Rocktäschel is a Director and Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind, leading the Open-Endedness Team. Concurrently, he is a Professor of AI at University College London, heading the DARK Lab. His award-winning research focuses on artificial general intelligence, self-improving systems, and reinforcement learning, with a PhD from UCL and a Dipl. -Inf. from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Outside of his primary roles, Tim is a published author of the book “Artificial Intelligence: 10 Things You Should Know. ” He is a frequent keynote speaker and podcast guest, discussing topics like artificial superhuman intelligence and the future of AI development. He is also passionate about democratizing AI research beyond large industry labs.

He is a proponent of not optimizing for conference papers, but rather focusing research on exciting, long-term North Star goals.

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Current Role
Director / Principal Scientist
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
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Topics Tim cares about

Open-Endedness in AI
Leads the Open-Endedness Team at Google DeepMind and delivered a keynote at ICLR 2025 on the topic, defining it as a key property for achieving superhuman AI.
Self-Improving Systems
His research focuses on creating AI that endlessly improves and expands its capabilities, believing all the ingredients are now in place for such systems.
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Career

Work history

11-2024 - 2-2026
Director / Principal Scientist
Google DeepMind
10-2024
Fellow
ELLIS - European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems
10-2023
Professor of Artificial Intelligence
UCL
4-2022 - 10-2024
Senior Staff Research Scientist (L7)
Google DeepMind
10-2021 - 9-2023
Associate Professor
UCL
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AI Recursive Self-Improvement. Google DeepMind Tim Rocktäschel .... Featured in Biocomm AI Blog
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The Inaugural Lecture of Professor Tim Rocktäschel. Featured in UCL Engineering – Computer Science
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Education
2013 - 2017
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
UCL
2006 - 2012
Dipl.-Inf. (equivalent to M.Sc.)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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