Adam White
About
Adam White is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta in the Department of Computing Science and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair as well as Principal Investigator of the Reinforcement Learning & Artificial Intelligence Lab (RLAI), and also serves as a Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind. His research focuses on the theoretical and empirical foundations of reinforcement learning—particularly continual learning, knowledge representation, intrinsic motivation, and deployment in real-world control systems—blending work in simulated environments, robotics, and industrial applications. He co-created influential tools and architectures like RL-Glue and Horde for scalable, real-time RL experimentation, co-developed the acclaimed Reinforcement Learning Specialization on Coursera used by tens of thousands, and has received accolades including “Paper of Distinction” and best paper awards in robotics conferences. Read more