| Doctorate | TU Munich, jointly with IDSIA (2011) PhD in machine learning (dr. rer. nat.) "Studies in Continuous Black-box Optimization"[26] (summa cum laude) Advisor: Jürgen Schmidhuber. |
| Masters | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (2005) MSc in computer engineering (dipl. ing. inf.) "Evolving a Compact Concept-based Sokoban Solver"[1] Advisors: Eric Baum and Boi Faltings. |
| Summer schools |
Cognitive Science and Machine Learning Summer School
(Sardinia, 2010) Advanced Scientific Programming in Python Winter School (Warsaw, 2010) Machine Learning Summer School (Cambridge, 2009) |
| Exchange years |
Columbia University (2004-2005) University of Waterloo (2002-2003) |
| Secondary ed. |
Lycée Classique de Diekirch (2000) |
| 2012 | Postdoctoral Fellowship National Research Fund Luxembourg |
| 2011 | PhD Challenge |
| 2011 | Solomonoff Student Prize Conference of Artificial General Intelligence |
| 2010 |
Kurzweil Best Paper Prize Conference of Artificial General Intelligence |
| 2009 | GECCO Best Paper Award |
| 2000 | International Mathematical Olympiad (South Korea) Bronze medal |
| 1996, 1997 | Olympiade Mathématique Belge Second prize (twice) |
| 2014 - present | Google DeepMind, senior research scientist. |
| 2013 - 2014 | DeepMind Technologies, senior researcher. |
| 2011 - 2013 | New York Univeristy, Courant Institute, Vision Learning Group Research scientist (PostDoc) with Yann LeCun |
| 2007 - 2011 | Swiss AI institute IDSIA Graduate student researcher, with Jürgen Schmidhuber |
| 2005 - 2007 | Baum Research Enterprises Research consulting (relevance based planning in complex problems) |
| 2003 - 2004 |
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
| 2003 |
| Tutorial lectures |
IM-CLeVeR Workshop, Lugano, Switzerland (2011)
FACETS CodeJam Workshop, Marseille, France (2010) |
| Area co-chair | Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, "Evolutionary Machine Learning" track (2014) |
| PC member / reviewer |
Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (2010-2011) European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (2012-present) Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (2011-present) IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (2010-present) IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (2012-2013) IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (2013) IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2013) IEEE Transactions on Computational and Artificial Intelligence in Games (2012-present) IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2013-present) International Conference on Machine Learning (2012-present) International Conference on Representation Learning (2013-present) Journal of Machine Learning Research (2010-present) Neural Information Processing Systems (2011) Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics (2013) |
| Council member | NYU Postdoc Council (2012-2013) |
| Local organizer | Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (2010) |
| Support staff | Civilian European Land Robot Trial (2007) |