Lancelot Da Costa

Researcher, VERSES Research Lab
Joined
March 2023

Names

Lancelot Da Costa (Preferred)

Emails

****@imperial.ac.uk (Confirmed)
****@verses.ai (Confirmed)
****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher
VERSES Research Lab (verses.ai)
2023Present
Intern
Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute (mila.quebec)
20242024
PhD student
Imperial College London (imperial.ac.uk)
20192023
MS student
University College London, University of London (ucl.ac.uk)
20182019
MS student
University of Cambridge (cam.ac.uk)
20172018
Undergrad student
EPFL - EPF Lausanne (epfl.ch)
20142017

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor
2024Present
Coworker
2024Present
PhD Advisor
2019Present
Postdoc Advisor
20242024
PhD Advisor
Grigorios A. Pavliotis
20192024
Coauthor
20222022
Coauthor
20222022
Coauthor
20222022
Coauthor
Mark Girolami
20222022
Coauthor
20222022
Coauthor
Noor Sajid
20202022
Coauthor
20212021

Expertise

model discovery
structure learning
causal representation learning
world model learning
program synthesis
program induction
program search
2024Present
computational cognitive science
cognitive reinforcement learning
theory based reinforcement learning
inductive biases
core knowledge priors
Bayesian models of cognition
2019Present
agents
active inference
world models
model based reinforcement learning
Bayesian decision-making
information theoretic objectives
curiosity
active learning
2019Present
stochastic processes
Markov processes
Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo methods
stochastic differential equations
20192024

Publications

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Co-Authors