I am Michael Matthews, a second-year PhD student at the University of Oxford supervised by Prof. Jakob Foerster as part of FLAIR. I am interested in self-supervised reinforcement learning, where an agent explores its environment without a human-specified objective.

I will be interning this summer at FAIR in NYC with Mikael Henaff.

Selected Publications

Kinetix	[ICLR 2025 Oral]
Craftax	[ICML 2024 Spotlight]

Other Publications

PGD	[RLC 2024]
ReMiDi	[ICML 2024]
JaxLife	[ALIFE 2024]
HKS	[CoLLAs 2022]

Short Bio

[2023-....]	PhD Engineering at Oxford
[2021-2023]	RL Researcher at VivaCity
[2020-2021]	MSc Machine Learning at UCL
[2017-2020]	BA Computer Science at Cambridge

Contact

$firstname [dot] tryfan [dot] $lastname [at] gmail [dot] com