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Tim Rocktäschel
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UCLProfessor of Artificial Intelligence
Rocktäschel works on AI that keeps learning by discovering new challenges. He co-authored Genie, which learned from videos to generate playable virtual worlds, and research on AI debate; both papers won Best Paper awards at ICML 2024.[1]
Career & education
Current roles
Previously
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.
citations57,715As of Nov 7, '26
citations+14,335Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
Selected contributions
Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks
With Patrick Lewis, Ethan Perez, Aleksandra Piktus, Fabio Petroni, Vladimir Karpukhin, Naman Goyal, Heinrich Küttler and others ·RAG finds relevant documents to help a language model generate better-informed answers.
Genie: Generative Interactive Environments
With Jake Bruce, Michael D Dennis, Ashley Edwards, Jack Parker-Holder, Yuge Shi, Edward Hughes, Matthew Lai and others ·Genie learns from videos to turn an image into a controllable virtual world.
References
- ICML 2024 Awardsicml.cc
Genie coauthorship, video-trained playable environments, debate research and Best Paper awards for both papers.
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