
David Abel
@dabelcs
Scientist @GoogleDeepMind and Fellow @EdinburghUni | RL, philosophy, AI, math, science | office hours: tinyurl.com/dabel-mtg
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http://david-abel.github.io/ 12-01-2018 17:41:04
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🎇 I’m on the academic job market! I’m a PhD candidate at Machine Learning Dept. at Carnegie Mellon. My research tackles challenges that arise from the sequential nature of human-AI interaction. Toward this goal, my work involves: 🤖 reinforcement learning, 🧠 foundation models, and 👩💻 human-centered AI.


🚀 I am recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 at the UCLA Robot Intelligence Lab! 🤖 If you are interested in robot learning and human-robot interaction, mark me as a potential adivisor when you apply to the UCLA CS PhD program! #PhD #Robotics UCLA CS Department







✨Recordings of Finding the Frame Workshop at RL_Conference 2024 are now up on our website!✨ sites.google.com/view/findingth…




🚨 Excited to share my new paper with Atoosa Kasirzadeh “Characterizing AI Agents for Alignment and Governance” We identify four key dimensions of AI agency—autonomy, efficacy, goal complexity & generality—and use this analysis to construct “agentic profiles” for a range of AI agents.


🚨 Reminder! Submissions for RL_Conference's Finding the Frame are due May 30 (AoE)! We're looking for bold ideas that rethink the foundations of RL: goals, values, rewards, formalisms, and beyond. 🧠Philosophy, theory, critique welcome! 🔗More details: sites.google.com/view/findingth…


🖼️Reminder!! Finding the Frame will be held on August 5 at RL_Conference at University of Alberta! See you in Edmonton 📰Submit here: openreview.net/group?id=rl-co… ⌛️Deadline: May 30 🔗More info: sites.google.com/view/findingth…



Excited about this new work led by Jon Richens, joint with Alexis Bellot and Tom Everitt Main result: Any agent that can solve a sufficiently rich set of goal-directed tasks must have learned a predictive model of the environment arxiv.org/abs/2506.01622