Mayalen Etcheverry
I am a third year PhD student in Machine Learning under the supervision of Pierre-Yves Oudeyer and Clément Moulin-Frier at the FLOWERS team at Inria, Bordeaux; and in collaboration with the Poietis biotech company. This year, I also went on a 4-month visit to Dr. Michael Levin and his team at the Levin Lab at Tufts University.
My research focuses on developing "curious" AI agents that can autonomously discover and learn a diversity of structures and skills in their environments. In particular, I am interested in applying those computational models to assist humans in mapping and navigating the space of possible outcomes of complex systems (artificial, physico-chemical and biological ones) and help solving challenging problems in science.
Previously, I have been at University College of London where I completed my Master of Science (MSc) in computer vision and at Télécom Paristech where I did my Master of Engineering (MEng). I also spent a year as an AI research intern at Siemens Healthineers, Princeton N.J., working on deep learning and reinforcement learning algorithms for healthcare.
News:
- 08-12/2022: Visited Dr. Michael Levin and his team at Tufts University
- 04/2022: Participated to the From Cells to Societies workshop, with [invited talk + dicussions]
- 01/2022: New blogpost where we study the emergence of sensorimotor agency within a CA environment
- 07/2021: New blogpost about our participation to the MineCraft Open-Endedness Challenge (Runner-up)
- 12/2020: NeurIPS 2020 talk about our paper on meta-diversity search to explore self-organizing systems
- 04/2020: New blogpost about our paper on intrinsically-motivated discovery in self-organizing systems
Publications:
Progressive Growing of Self-Organized Hierarchical Representations for Exploration
Beyond “tabula rasa” in reinforcement learning workshop at ICLR 2020
| abstract | pdf | publication | oral talk |Nonlinear Adaptively Learned Optimization for Object Localization in 3D Medical Images
DLMIA workshop at MICCAI 2018, also abstract at MED-NEURIPS 2018
US Patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190378291A1/en
| abstract | pdf | publication | poster |
Blog posts:
A conversation with Nicholas Guttenberg about my work
Learning Sensorimotor Agency in Cellular Automata
Meta-Diversity Search in Minecraft
Automated discovery in a continuous Game of Life