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Episode 136: Making driverless vehicles smarter - Shimon Whiteson

Episode 136: Making driverless vehicles smarter - Shimon Whiteson

Update: 2025-12-05
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Claire chatted to Shimon Whiteson from the University of Oxford and Waymo about machine learning for autonomous vehicles.

Shimon Whiteson is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Waymo UK. His research focuses on deep reinforcement learning and imitation learning, with applications in robotics and video games. He completed his doctorate at the University of Texas at Austin in 2007. He spent eight years as an Assistant and then an Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam before joining Oxford as an Associate Professor in 2015. His spin-out company Latent Logic was acquired by Waymo in 2019.


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Episode 136: Making driverless vehicles smarter - Shimon Whiteson

Episode 136: Making driverless vehicles smarter - Shimon Whiteson

Claire Asher