University of Alberta
London School of Economics
Hanna HajishirziVice President · Microsoft AIResearcher↗
Researcher · Engineer
Finbarr Timbers
Microsoft AIMember of Technical Staff
Career & education
Current roleMicrosoft AIJun 2026-presentMember of Technical Staff
Microsoft AIJun 2026-presentPreviously
Ai22025-2026Lead Research Engineer
Midjourney2023-2025Staff Research Engineer
Google DeepMind2017-2023Senior Research Engineer
Ai22025-2026Midjourney2023-2025Google DeepMind2017-2023Work 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.
citations1,952As of Nov 7, '26
citations+384Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
References
- Finbarr Timbers — Microsoft joining announcementx.com
15 June 2026 first-person announcement says second day at Microsoft Superintelligence, post-training with particular focus on tool use. X page unreadable; exact post retrieved via FxTwitter API.
- Mastering the Game of Stratego with Model-Free Multiagent Reinforcement Learningarxiv.org
Original paper credits Timbers and documents expert-level Stratego through self-play.
- OpenSpiel: A Framework for Reinforcement Learning in Gamesarxiv.org
Original coauthored framework paper supports game-learning toolkit contribution.
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