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shimon8282.bsky.social

@shimon8282.bsky.social
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Professor of Computer Science at Oxford. Senior Staff Research Scientist at Waymo.

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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Check out our new work on learning to drive in new cities without collecting any new demonstrations in that city. All we need is a simple reward function and readily available map and meta-information about the city. Self-play reinforcement learning does the rest!
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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I am hiring for two roles on my team at Waymo, based in London or Oxford. Come work at the cutting edge of autonomous driving! careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/machine... and careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/senior-...
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Machine Learning Engineer, AI Foundations - Oxford, England, United Kingdom - London, England, United Kingdom
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building ...
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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I was interviewed for the Robot Talk Podcast.
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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Check out our new work on using low-rank perturbations to make evolution strategies work for billion-parameter models.
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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The robotics revolution is here.
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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Waymo is coming to London next year.
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Robot Talk @robottalkpod.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Got questions about self-driving cars? 🤖 🚘 Later this season, I'll be chatting to Prof. Shimon Whiteson (@shimon8282.bsky.social) from @ox.ac.uk and @waymo.bsky.social about machine learning for autonomous vehicles. Send me your questions for Shimon in the comments below! #Robots #Robotics #AI
A photo of Shimon wearing a blue t-shirt.
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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I'm hiring a Machine Learning Engineer for my team at Waymo Research. Come help us tackle the biggest challenges in autonomous vehicles! careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/machine...
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Machine Learning Engineer, AI Foundations - Oxford, England, United Kingdom - London, England, United Kingdom
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building ...
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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
"In the fight against injustice, winning is a moral duty." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/m...
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Rutger Bregman Wants to Save Elites From Their Wasted Lives
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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Our survey on meta reinforcement learning has now been published by Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning: nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...
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now publishers - A Tutorial on Meta-Reinforcement Learning
Publishers of Foundations and Trends, making research accessible
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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Just another day at the office.
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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
In order to set a good example for my students, I feel morally obliged to do as little work as possible.
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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
A new version of the paper Counterfactual Multi-Agent Policy Gradients, that I first published in 2017 with @jfoerst.bsky.social, Greg Farquhar, and others, is now available on arXiv (arxiv.org/abs/1705.08926).
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Counterfactual Multi-Agent Policy Gradients
Cooperative multi-agent systems can be naturally used to model many real world problems, such as network packet routing and the coordination of autonomous vehicles. There is a great need for new reinf...
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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
My team at Waymo is hiring two London-based interns for Summer 2025. Please consider applying! careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/2025-su... careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/2025-su...
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2025 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Research - Simulation Agents - London, England, United Kingdom
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waym...
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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
What if instead of viewing AI as a separate entity, we treat the human and computer as one cognitive unit that together outperforms either on its own? My prefrontal cortex doesn't fret about delegating visual processing to my visual cortex. I don't fret about delegating navigation to Google Maps.
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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Who says Mountain Car is not a real world problem?
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