Matthew Farrugia-Roberts
Matthew Farrugia-Roberts
Room
503, desk 1,
Wolfson Building,
Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD
United Kingdom
Interests
My main, high-level research interest is in the foundations of intelligence, learning, and computation. I am motivated to study these foundations in order to find ways to improve the relationship between technology and society in the present and the future. So far, I am still very much a student in these topics, with a lot to learn. My research experience has focussed on narrower topics, including topics in classical AI alignment and the science of deep (reinforcement) learning.
Biography
I joined the Department of Computer Science as a doctoral student in 2024. Before moving to Oxford, I worked as a research associate at Timaeus, a research assistant at the Krueger AI Safety Lab in Cambridge, a research assistant at the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics at the University of Melbourne, and a research intern at the Center for Human-compatible AI at UC Berkeley. I previously studied at the University of Melbourne (BS, MCS) and ETH Zürich (exchange semester), including a breadth of topics in mathematics, computer science, and software engineering and with a specialisation in statistical learning theory and the theory of computation.