Alexander D. Goldie

PhD Student, University of Oxford

I am a PhD student at the University of Oxford, supervised by Jakob Foerster and Shimon Whiteson. My research focuses on (meta-)reinforcement learning, automated algorithm discovery, and autonomous research and discovery.

I'm currently a research intern at Meta on the AI Research Agents team, supervised by Yoram Bachrach. Before that, I was a Research Scientist Intern at Wayve, working on offline reinforcement learning for autonomous driving. My PhD is offered by AIMS, a competitive PhD-level course for Machine Learning.

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News

Aug 2026I was invited to a 4-day workshop on Real-World RL, at the University of Hannover. I gave both a vision talk and a technical talk.
Jun 2026I started my Research Scientist Internship at Meta, on the AI Research Agents team!
May 2026DiscoGen was accepted to ICML 2026!
Apr 2026I won a grant worth $240k from Open Philanthropy, on behalf of the lab, for scaling faithfulness in chain-of-thought reasoning.
Feb 2026I gave the inaugural Cruickshank Lecture about DiscoGen at Inherent Labs.

Earlier entries

Nov 2025My internship at Wayve finished. During my internship, for a while, I developed the main model which was driving the Wayve car!
Aug 2025I was invited to talk on two episodes of TalkRL.
Aug 2025My paper was awarded “Outstanding Paper for Scientific Understanding In Reinforcement Learning” at RLC 2025!
Jun 2025I started a Research Scientist internship at Wayve.
Dec 2024OPEN was awarded a Spotlight at NeurIPS 2024!
Jul 2024I took part in a panel discussion at the AutoRL workshop in ICML24.
Jun 2024OPEN was awarded a Spotlight at the AutoRL workshop in ICML24.
Oct 2022I started my PhD on AIMS at the University of Oxford.
Jul 2022I graduated from my MEng Engineering Science at the University of Oxford with a high First!