Taylor W. Killian

Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Foundation Models, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

  • Joined July 2019

Names

Taylor W. Killian (Preferred)
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Taylor Wayne Killian

Emails

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Career & Education History

Senior Research Scientist
Institute of Foundation Models, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (mbzuai.ac.ae)
2025Present
 
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Special Projects Group, Apple (apple.com)
20232024
 
Visiting Student
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)
20212024
 
PhD student
University of Toronto (toronto.edu)
20192024
 
Graduate Researcher
Vector Institute (vectorinstitute.ai)
20192024
 
Research Intern
Microsoft Research (microsoft.com)
20222022
 
Research Intern
Apple (apple.com)
20212021
 
Research Intern
Google (google.com)
20202020
 
Research Scientist
MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (ll.mit.edu)
20132019
 
MS student
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University (seas.harvard.edu)
20152017
 
Undergrad student
Brigham Young University (byu.edu)
20062013
 

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

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Master's Advisor
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Expertise

Risk-sensitive Reinforcement Learning
2021Present
 
Offline Reinforcement Learning
2020Present
 
Causal Inference
2019Present
 
Approximate Inference
2016Present
 
Reinforcement Learning
2015Present
 
Transfer Learning
2015Present
 
Healthcare
2015Present
 
Bayesian Neural Networks
20152017
 

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