Shimon Whiteson

Shimon Whiteson is a Professor of Computer Science at Oxford University, the head of WhiRL, the Whiteson Research Lab at Oxford, and Head of Research at Waymo UK. 

Featured References 

VariBAD: A Very Good Method for Bayes-Adaptive Deep RL via Meta-Learning 
Luisa Zintgraf, Kyriacos Shiarlis, Maximilian Igl, Sebastian Schulze, Yarin Gal, Katja Hofmann, Shimon Whiteson 

Monotonic Value Function Factorisation for Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning 
Tabish Rashid, Mikayel Samvelyan, Christian Schroeder de Witt, Gregory Farquhar, Jakob Foerster, Shimon Whiteson 

Additional References 

• Shimon Whiteson - Multi-agent RL, MIT Embodied Intelligence Seminar 
• The StarCraft Multi-Agent Challenge, Samvelyan et al 2019 
• Direct Policy Transfer with Hidden Parameter Markov Decision Processes, Yao et al  2018 
• Value-Decomposition Networks For Cooperative Multi-Agent Learning, Sunehag et al 2017 
• Whiteson Research Lab 
• Waymo acquires Latent Logic to accelerate progress towards safe, driverless vehicles, Oxford News 
• Waymo