Dr Piotr Mirowski is a Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and a Visiting Research and Knowledge Exchange Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research on artificial intelligence covers the subjects of computer vision, deep reinforcement learning, robotic navigation, weather and climate forecasting, as well as a socio-technical systems approach to human-machine collaboration and to computational creativity. He is the author of over 80 papers and patents in applications of AI to the real world. Piotr studied computer science in France at ENSEEIHT Toulouse and obtained his PhD in computer science in 2011 at New York University, with a thesis supervised by Prof. Yann LeCun (Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2011).
A trained actor himself, Piotr founded and directs Improbotics, a theatre company where human actors and robots improvise live comedy performances and investigate the use of AI for artistic human and machine-based co-creation.