Catherine’s College. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on machine learning and decision-theoretic planning. In addition to theoretical work on these topics, he has in recent years also focused on applying them to practical problems in robotics and search engine optimisation. He studied English and Computer Science at Rice University before completing a doctorate in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin in 2007. He then spent eight years as an Assistant and then an Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam before joining Oxford as an Associate Professor in 2015. He was awarded an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council in 2014 and a Google Faculty Research Award in 2017.