Taylor W. Killian (Preferred)
Taylor Wayne Killian
Taylor W. Killian
Principal Researcher, AI Research, Lila Sciences
Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Foundation Models, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Joined
July 2019
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Career & Education History
Principal Researcher
AI Research, Lila Sciences (lila.ai)
2026 – Present
Senior Research Scientist
Institute of Foundation Models, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (mbzuai.ac.ae)
2025 – 2026
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Special Projects Group, Apple (apple.com)
2023 – 2024
Visiting Student
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)
2021 – 2024
PhD student
University of Toronto (toronto.edu)
2019 – 2024
Graduate Researcher
Vector Institute (vectorinstitute.ai)
2019 – 2024
Research Intern
Microsoft Research (microsoft.com)
2022 – 2022
Research Intern
Apple (apple.com)
2021 – 2021
Research Intern
Google (google.com)
2020 – 2020
Research Scientist
MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (ll.mit.edu)
2013 – 2019
MS student
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University (seas.harvard.edu)
2015 – 2017
Undergrad student
Brigham Young University (byu.edu)
2006 – 2013
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Coauthor
Marc Bellemare
2020 – 2021
Expertise
Risk-sensitive Reinforcement Learning
2021 – Present
Offline Reinforcement Learning
2020 – Present
Causal Inference
2019 – Present
Approximate Inference
2016 – Present
Reinforcement Learning
2015 – Present
Transfer Learning
2015 – Present
Healthcare
2015 – Present
Bayesian Neural Networks
2015 – 2017
Publications
Co-Authors
- Abulhair Saparov
- Afsaneh Doryab
- Aleksei Petrenko
- Alexander Hertzberg
- Alister D. Costa
- Amrith Setlur
- Andrew Silva
- Ava P Amini
- Aviral Kumar
- Brandon Rufino
- Brody Huval
- Chengqian Gao
- David Hafner
- Eric P. Xing
- Erik Wijmans
- Eugene Vinitsky
- Fan Zhou
- Feng Yao
- Finale Doshi-Velez
- George Dimitri Konidaris
- George Konidaris
- Haonan Li
- Haoran Zhang
- Hugo Barnes
- Ivan Dario Jimenez Jimenez