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Andrei A. Rusu
Google DeepMindResearch Scientist
🇷🇴 RomanianBorn 1984
Rusu helped develop Progressive Neural Networks, which let an AI reuse earlier skills without overwriting them.[1] He then applied the approach to robots learning from pixels in simulation and transferring those behaviors to physical machines, an influential early demonstration of sim-to-real learning.
Career & education
Current role
Research Scientist
Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations81,801As of Oct 14, '26
Selected contributions
Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
With Volodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu, David Silver, Joel Veness, Marc G. Bellemare, Alex Graves, Martin Riedmiller and others ·Presented DQN, learning to play 49 Atari games from screen images and game scores.
References
- Progressive Neural Networksarxiv.org
Rusu helped develop Progressive Neural Networks, which let an AI reuse earlier skills without overwriting them.
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