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Invited talk 1 QnA: Shakir Mohamed
Shakir Mohamed · Feryal Behbahani · Raymond Chua

Sat Dec 12 05:16 AM -- 05:30 AM (PST) @
in Biological and Artificial Reinforcement Learning »

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Shakir Mohamed (DeepMind)
Shakir Mohamed

Shakir Mohamed is a senior staff scientist at DeepMind in London. Shakir's main interests lie at the intersection of approximate Bayesian inference, deep learning and reinforcement learning, and the role that machine learning systems at this intersection have in the development of more intelligent and general-purpose learning systems. Before moving to London, Shakir held a Junior Research Fellowship from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), based in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia with Nando de Freitas. Shakir completed his PhD with Zoubin Ghahramani at the University of Cambridge, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar to the United Kingdom. Shakir is from South Africa and completed his previous degrees in Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Feryal Behbahani (DeepMind)
Raymond Chua (McGill University / Mila)

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