Piotr Mirowski

Senior Staff Research Scientist

Google DeepMind

Speaker Biography

Dr Piotr Mirowski is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, where he leads a team on AI and Society, investigating and deploying participatory AI.

His research on artificial intelligence covers the subjects of reinforcement learning, 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 75 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 that pioneered the use of AI for artistic human and machine-based co-creation.

Piotr’s creative coding work and critical AI installations include collaborations with Zürich University of the Arts and STUDIO teatrgaleria in Warsaw.

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