I work on (modular) reinforcement learning, black-box optimization, (deep and/or recurrent) neural networks, artificial curiosity and related topics.

15/12: won the 2011 PhD Challenge!
08/09: media coverage of universal intelligence measures[27] in the New Scientist.
24/08: defended my thesis at the TU Munich (summa cum laude).
Dedicated page for collecting Natural Evolution Strategies implementations.
3-6/08: presented [24] at AGI in Mountain View (Solomonoff Student Prize).
16-22/07: presented [22] at IJCAI in Barcelona.
12-16/07: presented [21] at GECCO in Dublin.
5-8/06: presented [20] at the "Big EC" in the "Big Easy".
17/02: talk on Natural Evolution Strategies at CSAIL/MIT.