Robotic Converse Episode 136 – Making Driverless Cars Smarter, With Shimon Whiteson

Claire chatted to Shimon Whiteson from Waymo about machine finding out for autonomous cars.

Shimon Whiteson is a Professor of Laptop computer Science on the Faculty of Oxford and a Senior Staff Evaluation Scientist at Waymo UK. His evaluation focuses on deep reinforcement finding out and imitation finding out, with features in robotics and video video video games. He completed his doctorate on the Faculty of Texas at Austin in 2007. He spent eight years as an Assistant after which an Affiliate Professor on the Faculty of Amsterdam sooner than changing into a member of Oxford as an Affiliate Professor in 2015. His spin-out agency Latent Logic was acquired by Waymo in 2019.