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