Jeff Clune
Jeff Clune focuses on deep learning, including deep reinforcement learning. Previously he was a research manager at OpenAI, a Senior Research Manager and founding member of Uber AI Labs (formed after Uber acquired a startup he helped lead), the Harris Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Wyoming, and a Research Scientist at Cornell University. He has won the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the White House, had two papers in Nature, one in Science, and one in PNAS, won an NSF CAREER award, received multiple Outstanding Paper of the Decade and Distinguished Young Investigator awards, received a Test of Time award, and had best paper awards, oral presentations, and invited talks at the top machine learning conferences (NeurIPS, CVPR, ICLR, and ICML).