Olaf Witkowski

Principal Researcher, Cross Labs

Lecturer, The University of Tokyo

Researcher, Tokyo Institute of Technology

  • Joined May 2021

Names

Olaf Witkowski (Preferred)

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
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****@crosslabs.org (Confirmed)
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****@cross-compass.com (Confirmed)
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****@ias.edu (Confirmed)

Career & Education History

Principal Researcher
Cross Labs (crosslabs.org)
2019Present
 
Lecturer
The University of Tokyo (u-tokyo.ac.jp)
2019Present
 
Researcher
Tokyo Institute of Technology (titech.ac.jp)
2016Present
 
Researcher
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (ias.edu)
20162019
 
Postdoc
The University of Tokyo (u-tokyo.ac.jp)
20152016
 
PhD student
The University of Tokyo (u-tokyo.ac.jp)
20102015
 
Instructor
UCL (uclouvain.be)
20072008
 
MS student
UCL (uclouvain.be)
20042007
 

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor
Takashi Ikegami
20102015
 

Expertise

artificial life, soft robotics, simulation, artificial chemistry, origins of life
Present
 
evolutionary computation, evolutionary robotics, map-elites
Present
 
collective intelligence, swarm robotics, distributed dynamics
Present
 
cellular automata, dynamical systems, complexity theory
Present
 
emergence of communication, evolutionary linguistics, evolution of cooperation, game theory
Present
 
natural language processing, computational linguistics, conversational AI
Present
 
information theory, transfer entropy, empowerment
Present
 
machine learning, metalearning, deep learning, recurrent neural networks
Present
 
reinforcement learning, robotics simulation
Present