I am Michael Matthews, a third-year PhD student at the University of Oxford supervised by Prof. Jakob Foerster as part of FLAIR. I am broadly interested in reinforcement learning, especially with regards to goal-conditioned RL, exploration, self-supervised RL, long term decision making and autocurricula.

I am interning at FAIR in NYC with Mikael Henaff from June-Dec 2025.

Selected Publications

Kinetix [ICLR 2025 Oral]
Craftax [ICML 2024 Spotlight]

Other Publications

SOL [preprint]
PGD [RLC 2024]
ReMiDi [ICML 2024]
JaxLife [ALIFE 2024]
HKS [CoLLAs 2022]

Short Bio

[2025] RS Intern at Meta FAIR (6 months)
[2023—....] PhD Engineering at Oxford
[2021—2023] RL Researcher at VivaCity
[2020—2021] MSc Machine Learning at UCL
[2017—2020] BA Computer Science at Cambridge

Contact

$firstname [dot] tryfan [dot] $lastname [at] gmail [dot] com


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