My Name is Manus. I am an AI researcher. I am particularly interested in failure modes and related phenomena in deep reinforcement learning (plasticity, policy churn, tandem effect, catastrophic forgetting). Broader interests are foundational models, programming, mathematics etc. I attended Trinity College Dublin where I graduated with a masters and bachelors in engineering.
Currently:
- Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI (LLMs + reinforcement learning)
Previously:
- Research Engineer at Instadeep (large-scale RL, protein language models, quantum machine learning)
- Intern Research Engineer at Sony AI (offline RL, continuous control, robotics)
- Intern Machine Learning Engineer at Provizio (convolutional/recurrent/transformer architectures, supersampling)
- Research Assistant TCD Electronic Engineering Department (cyberphysical systems, optimal control)
- Team Lead for Reinforcement Learning in Formula Trinity Autonomous