Andrzej Banburski-Fahey
Principal Researcher
About
I’m a Principal Researcher at the Deep Learning group (opens in new tab) working on orchestration of large AI models to create assistants in the creative domain. In particular, my work has been recently focused on an effort on “Speaking the World into Existence” with Jaron Lanier (opens in new tab), to allow prompt-based creation of rich interactive virtual scenes. My eventual goals are to create an AI research assistant to allow us to formulate research questions and help work on them to expand our creativity and help us to ask the right kind of questions to solve the most difficult problems.
Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Brains, Minds + Machines at MIT working on theory of Deep Learning with Tomaso Poggio (opens in new tab), as well as making deep networks robust through biologically inspired mechanisms and building neuro-symbolic models capable of rule-based reasoning. Before that, I obtained a PhD in Quantum Gravity at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics with Lee Smolin (opens in new tab) and Laurent Freidel (opens in new tab) and worked on Mixed Reality platform for mathematical collaboration as an intern at Microsoft Research.
My research interests broadly span the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience, Quantum Gravity and Mixed Reality.