Jack is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind in the Open-Endedness Team and an Honorary Lecturer at University College London, where he is part of UCL DARK. He is interested in training world models from internet-scale data, providing unlimited training environments for embodied AGI. One of his recent works is Genie.
Before joining Google DeepMind, Jack was a DPhil student at St Peter's College, Oxford, where he was part of the Machine Learning Research Group, advised by Stephen Roberts. He also completed internships at FAIR London with Tim Rocktäschel and Ed Grefenstette and Aspect Capital in the ML group. In a previous life, he had a seven-year finance career, as both a Quantitative Researcher and ETF Trader at J.P. Morgan in New York. While in America, he studied for a Master's part-time at Columbia where he discovered the joys of machine learning research! Jack is originally from the UK and studied Maths at Exeter.
Aside from AI research, Jack also enjoys parenting a daughter and a dog, travel, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and supporting Chelsea FC.
