We opened the 2025 round of Get Together Seminars with guest speaker Zita Marinho, a Senior Research Scientist at Google Deepmind, where she is currently working on the intersection of reinforcement learning and language models. She holds a dual PhD/MSc in Robotics from the Robotics Institute, and from IST University of Lisbon as part of the CMU/Portugal program, her dissertation focused on method of moments for language and planning. She holds a MSc. degree in Physics Engineering from Instituto Superior Tecnico, in 2010.
Her main research interests lie in algorithms bridging reinforcement learning and natural language processing. She is particularly interested in studying how agentic AIs can learn and explore more effectively from interactions. She is particularly interested in making these interactions more diverse and enriching the learning signal for learning agents.
After Zita in March, in April we will welcome Gordon Sarty, who has degrees in Mechanical Engineering (BScE, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, 1982) and Applied Math (PhD, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, 1995) and who has been working to design and build an MRI that is suitable for use in space. Gordon will be our guest speaker on the 17th, at the ISR-Lisboa meeting room.
Previously we have also had many opportunities to Get Together and discuss a range of different topics with invited speakers:
