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Tim Rocktäschel
Full Professor, Department of Computer Science, University College London, University of London
Director, Google DeepMind
Joined
September 2016
Names
Tim Rocktäschel
(Preferred)
,
Tim Rocktaeschel
Emails
****@gmail.com
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****@cs.ox.ac.uk
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****@cs.ucl.ac.uk
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****@fb.com
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****@google.com
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****@deepmind.com
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Career & Education History
Full Professor
Department of Computer Science, University College London, University of London
(cs.ucl.ac.uk)
2023
–
Present
Director
Google DeepMind
(google.com)
2024
–
2026
Senior Staff Research Scientist
Google DeepMind
(google.com)
2022
–
2024
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science, University College London
(cs.ucl.ac.uk)
2021
–
2023
Manager, Research Scientist
Facebook AI Research
(facebook.com)
2021
–
2022
Research Scientist
Facebook AI Research
(facebook.com)
2018
–
2021
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, University College London
(cs.ucl.ac.uk)
2018
–
2021
Postdoc
Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
(cs.ox.ac.uk)
2017
–
2018
PhD student
Department of Computer Science, University College London
(cs.ucl.ac.uk)
2013
–
2017
Research Intern
Google DeepMind
(google.com)
2015
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2015
MSc student
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
(informatik.hu-berlin.de)
2006
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2012
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
No relations added
Expertise
Open-Endedness
Present
Recursive Self-Improvement
Present
Artificial General Intelligence
Present
Publications
DéjàQ: Open-Ended Evolution of Diverse, Learnable and Verifiable Problems
Willem Röpke
,
Samuel Coward
,
Andrei Lupu
,
Thomas Foster
,
Tim Rocktäschel
,
Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
LLA 2026 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
Learning When to Plan: Efficiently Allocating Test-Time Compute for LLM Agents
Davide Paglieri
,
Bartłomiej Cupiał
,
Jonathan Cook
,
Ulyana Piterbarg
,
Jens Tuyls
,
Edward Grefenstette
,
Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
,
Jack Parker-Holder
,
Tim Rocktäschel
Submitted to ICLR 2026
Readers:
Everyone
Programming by Backprop: An Instruction is Worth 100 Examples When Finetuning LLMs
Jonathan Cook
,
Silvia Sapora
,
Arash Ahmadian
,
Akbir Khan
,
Tim Rocktäschel
,
Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
,
Laura Ruis
ICLR 2026 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
LLM-First Search: Self-Guided Exploration of the Solution Space
Nathan Herr
,
Tim Rocktäschel
,
Roberta Raileanu
Submitted to ICLR 2026
Readers:
Everyone
DéjàQ: Open-Ended Evolution of Diverse, Learnable and Verifiable Problems
Willem Röpke
,
Samuel Coward
,
Andrei Lupu
,
Thomas Foster
,
Tim Rocktäschel
,
Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
Submitted to ICLR 2026
Readers:
Everyone
Imagined Autocurricula
Ahmet H. Güzel
,
Matthew Thomas Jackson
,
Jarek Luca Liesen
,
Tim Rocktäschel
,
Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
,
Ilija Bogunovic
,
Jack Parker-Holder
NeurIPS 2025 poster
Readers:
Everyone
Preference-Based Alignment of Discrete Diffusion Models
Umberto Borso
,
Davide Paglieri
,
Jude Wells
,
Tim Rocktäschel
ICLR 2025 Bi-Align Workshop Poster
Readers:
Everyone
Investigating Non-Transitivity in LLM-as-a-Judge
Yi Xu
,
Laura Ruis
,
Tim Rocktäschel
,
Robert Kirk
ICML 2025 spotlightposter
Readers:
Everyone
On Reward Functions For Self-Improving Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Without Supervised Datasets (Abridged Version)
Thomas Foster
,
Eltayeb Ahmed
,
Jonathan Cook
,
Shalev Lifshitz
,
Tim Rocktäschel
,
Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
LanGame Poster
Readers:
Everyone
TICKing All the Boxes: Generated Checklists Improve LLM Evaluation and Generation
Jonathan Cook
,
Tim Rocktäschel
,
Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
,
Dennis Aumiller
,
Alex Wang
LanGame Poster
Readers:
Everyone
View all 246 publications
Co-Authors
Acyr Locatelli
Adaptive Agent Team
Aditi Mavalankar
Adrian Collister
Ahmet H. Güzel
Akbir Khan
Aldo Pacchiano
Aleksandra Piktus
Alex Wang
Alexander H. Miller
Alexander I. Cowen-Rivers
Alexander Imani Cowen-Rivers
Alexander Neitz
Alexander Rutherford
Alexander Zacherl
Alexandra Souly
Alfonso Valencia
Alistair Letcher
Amy Zhang
Anabel Usie
Andre Lamurias
Andrea Tacchetti
Andreas Vlachos
Andrei Lupu
Andres Campero
View all 375 co-authors