University of Exeter
Columbia University
University of Oxford
Philip BallCo-founder · EmulateResearcher↗
Researcher · Founder
Jack Parker-Holder
EmulateCo-founder
Parker-Holder helped conceive and lead Genie, a family of world models that turn text or images into interactive environments. His work explores systems that learn how worlds behave so agents can generate, enter, and practice within new simulated settings.
Career & education
Current role
Emulate2026-present
Co-founderPreviously
Google DeepMind2022-?Research Director
Google DeepMind2022-?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.
citations5,414As of Oct 22, '26
citations+1,113Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
Selected contributions
Genie: Generative Interactive Environments
With Jake Bruce, Michael D Dennis, Ashley Edwards, Yuge Shi, Edward Hughes, Matthew Lai, Aditi Mavalankar and others ·Genie learns from videos to turn an image into a controllable virtual world.
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