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Aleksandra Faust
@AleksandraFaust
Foundation Models & AI Agents for the Real World | AI Innovation from Inception to Societal Impact | @genesismolai • @GoogleDeepMind • @Waymo • @SandiaLabs
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    Aleksandra Faust
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    Dec 6, 2025
    I’m humbled to share that I’ve been elevated to IEEE Fellow, Class of 2026! Citation: "For technical contributions to learning-based scalable autonomy and foundation models." Research is a team sport. This belongs to the incredible mentors & collaborators who shaped my path.
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    Aleksandra Faust
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    Apr 14, 2022
    I am hiring a research engineering lead for my team @GoogleAI. If you have background in autonomy, autonomous systems, and reinforcement learning, passion to make a difference, and are a true team player, apply directly: careers.google.com/jobs/results/7…
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    Aleksandra Faust
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    Apr 22, 2021
    Very excited to share our recent work, which enables automated design of new RL algorithms. We will be presenting it as oral at ICLR on Wed, 5-May. sites.google.com/corp/view/evol… w/@JDCoReyes @yingjieMiao @dypeng @estebitius @svlevine @quocleix @honglaklee @AleksandraFaust
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    Google AI
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    Apr 22, 2021
    Today we present a new approach for automated discovery of generalizable #ReinforcementLearning algorithms that evolves a population of loss functions — represented by computational graphs — over a set of simple training environments. Learn more at goo.gle/3dFzDML
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    Evolving RL
    arXiv | ICLR Oral Talk | github | algorithms | openreview | blog post Abstract: We propose a method for meta-learning reinforcement learning algorithms by searching over the space of computational...
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    Aleksandra Faust
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    May 16, 2025
    Bittersweet feelings today, as I wrap up nearly 10 incredible years at Google! Immensely grateful for the amazing colleagues, the friendships, and the chance to contribute to impactful projects like @Waymo, Google Brain Robotics/RL, Gemini Next Self-Improvement & Foundational
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    Aleksandra Faust
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    Jun 12, 2025
    Personal update: I’m beyond excited to share that I have joined @genesistxai as Chief AI Officer! It's an honor to join this mission and use #AIForGood to forge new treatments and deliver hope to families facing severe diseases. The GEMS platform is at the forefront of AI-driven
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    Aleksandra Faust
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    Jul 4, 2025
    Join my team at @genesistxai ! 🧬 We're forging AI foundation models to unlock groundbreaking therapies for patients with severe diseases. We're hiring ML Scientists, Engineers, TPMs & Interns in foundation models, #LLMs , #RL, #diffusion models, and other cutting-edge areas of
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    Aleksandra Faust
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    Sep 27, 2022
    Very excited to share this work that with a simple idea reduces carbon footprint of training RL model by up to 3.8x w/ @Srivatsan91 , @profvjreddi, and other collaborators from @hseas and @DeepMind.
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    Google AI
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    Sep 27, 2022
    Introducing ActorQ, a novel paradigm that uses a quantization optimization technique to speed up #ReinforcementLearning training and reduce RL training’s carbon footprint, while maintaining performance. Learn more at → goo.gle/3RgCEUC
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    Aleksandra Faust
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    Mar 31, 2021
    A little sneak peak, #CoRL2021 is moving to #OpenReview. Submission deadline on 18-June. Official info coming up soon @corl_conf.
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    CoRL 2021 Conference
    Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for CoRL 2021 Conference
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    Aleksandra Faust
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    Dec 7, 2019
    What's the best way to learn deep RL? Write a book, of course! Congratulations @lgraesser3! Honored to work with you! Foundations of Deep Reinforcement Learning: Theory and Practice in Python (Addison-Wesley Data & Analytics Series) amazon.com/dp/0135172381/…
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    Aleksandra Faust
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    Dec 10, 2020
    Can we learn RL algorithms that outperform existing ones, generalize to a wide variety of environments, and can be analyzed? Evolving Reinforcement Learning Algorithms Friday @ Deep RL Workshop at @NeurIPSConf Room: B.b6, 12:30-13:30 and 18:00-19:00 PT.
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    Aleksandra Faust
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    Feb 22, 2020
    Deeply honored to receive Early Government or Industry Career Award in Robotics and Automation @ieeeras to be presented @icra2020. Many thanks to all of my collaborators and mentors without whom this would not be possible. Congrats to the other winners! ieee-ras.org/about-ras/late…
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    Aleksandra Faust
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    Dec 2, 2022
    Replying to @AleksandraFaust
    Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Microprocessor Design Space Exploration, Krishnan et al., Oral #MLSyS, arxiv.org/abs/2211.16385 Hardware architecture design is a search over a complex interconnected system. #MARL brings up 60x improvement over single RL agents.
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    Aleksandra Faust
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    Oct 24, 2022
    It was a great honor to give a keynote at @iros2022 and share some of the team's recent work toward generalist agents in real world and scalable autonomy.
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    IEEE RAS
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    Oct 24, 2022
    Grab your seats fast! The Keynote sessions have started. We have Vivian Chu (@dr_vchu),@DiligentRobots as our very first speaker. Followed by Aleksandra Faust (@AleksandraFaust), Google Research, and James Kuffner (@james_kuffner), @ToyotaMotorCorp #iros2022
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    Aleksandra Faust
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    Jul 22, 2024
    Excited to attend @icmlconf in Vienna. I'll be here the whole week. Let me know if you want to catch up. I am looking forward to connecting with everyone. Here is some of the work to highlight.
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