Lancelot Da Costa (Preferred)
Lancelot Da Costa
Researcher, VERSES Research Lab
Joined
March 2023
Names
Emails
****@imperial.ac.uk (Confirmed)
****@verses.ai (Confirmed)
****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
Personal Links
Career & Education History
Researcher
VERSES Research Lab (verses.ai)
2023 – Present
Intern
Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute (mila.quebec)
2024 – 2024
PhD student
Imperial College London (imperial.ac.uk)
2019 – 2023
MS student
University College London, University of London (ucl.ac.uk)
2018 – 2019
MS student
University of Cambridge (cam.ac.uk)
2017 – 2018
Undergrad student
EPFL - EPF Lausanne (epfl.ch)
2014 – 2017
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
PhD Advisor
Grigorios A. Pavliotis
2019 – 2024
Coauthor
Mark Girolami
2022 – 2022
Coauthor
Noor Sajid
2020 – 2022
Expertise
model discovery
, structure learning
, causal representation learning
, world model learning
, program synthesis
, program induction
, program search
2024 – Present
computational cognitive science
, cognitive reinforcement learning
, theory based reinforcement learning
, inductive biases
, core knowledge priors
, Bayesian models of cognition
2019 – Present
agents
, active inference
, world models
, model based reinforcement learning
, Bayesian decision-making
, information theoretic objectives
, curiosity
, active learning
2019 – Present
stochastic processes
, Markov processes
, Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo methods
, stochastic differential equations
2019 – 2024
Publications
Co-Authors
- Alessandro Barp
- Alexey Zakharov
- Biswa Sengupta
- Casper Hesp
- Conor Heins
- Daniela Cialfi
- Danijar Hafner
- David Hyland
- Francesco Faccio
- Grigorios A. Pavliotis
- Guilherme França
- Howard Bowman
- Jan Kulveit
- Julian Gutierrez
- Jürgen Schmidhuber
- Kai Ueltzhöffer
- Karl J. Friston
- M. Berk Mirza
- Marek Grzes
- Mark A. Girolami
- Maxwell James D. Ramstead
- Michael I. Jordan
- Michael J. Wooldridge
- Noor Sajid
- Pablo Lanillos