UCL Deciding, Acting, and Reasoning with Knowledge (DARK) Lab

The UCL Deciding, Acting, and Reasoning with Knowledge (DARK) Lab is a Reinforcement Learning research group at the UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence. We focus on research in complex open-ended environments that provide a constant stream of novel observations without reliable reward functions, often requiring agents to create their own curricula and to deal with external knowledge, natural language, and hard exploration problems.

Faculty

Tim Rocktäschel
Professor of Artificial Intelligence
Edward Grefenstette
Honorary Professor
Roberta Raileanu
Honorary Lecturer
Jack Parker-Holder
Honorary Lecturer

PhD Students

Ahmet H. Güzel
Affiliated PhD Student (2024—)
Co-advised by Ilija Bogunovic
Nathan Herr
Affiliated PhD Student (2023—)
Co-advised by Alex Zhibin and Maria Perez Ortiz
Davide Paglieri
PhD Student (2023—)
Akbir Khan
PhD Student (2021—)
Laura Ruis
PhD Student (2021—)
Yingchen Xu
PhD Student (2021—)
Zhengyao Jiang
PhD Student (2020—)
Robert Kirk
PhD Student (2020—)
Mikayel Samvelyan
PhD Student (2020—)

MSc Students

Past PhD Students

Minqi Jiang
PhD Student (2019—2023)
Next a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

Other Alumni

Rob Moss
MSc Student
Yi Xu
MSc Student
Efstathios Siatras
MSc Student
Garðar Ingvarsson
MSc Student
Next a Machine Learning Researcher at Miðeind
Shavindra Jayasekera
MSc Student
Next a PhD student at Imperial College London
Alexandra Souly
MSc Student
Next a Technical Staff at AI Safety Institute
Dominik Schmidt
MSc Student
Next a Research Engineer at Weco AI
Raunakk Banerjee
MSc Student
Jonathan Cook
MSc Student (2022)
Next a PhD student at Oxford
Newton Kwan
MSc Student (2022)
Ben Woodyear
MSc Student (2022)
Pasquale Minervini
Senior Research Fellow
Next a faculty at the University of Edinburgh
Hannah Teufel
MSc Student (2021)
Mikey Matthews
MSc Student (2021)
Next a Machine Learning Researcher at Vivacity Labs
Robert McHardy
MSc Student (2021)
Next an AI Research Engineer at InstaDeep
Ian Wu
MSc Student (2021)
Next a Data Scientist at C3.ai
Matthew Jackson
MSc Student (2021)
Next a PhD student at Oxford
Andy Ehrenberg
MSc Student (2021)
Christina Kouridi
MSc Student (2020)
Next a Research Engineer at InstaDeep
Udeepa Meepegama
MSc Student (2020)
Yuchen Zhu
MSc Student (2019—2020)
Next a PhD student at UCL
Joe Stacey
MSc Student (2019)
Next a PhD student at Imperial College London
Isaac Kamlish
MSc Student (2019)
Next a data scientist at Facebook
Artem Yurlov
MSc Student (2019)
Next an intern at JPMorgan Chase & Co