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Past Member

Daniel A. Roberts

Funding provided by the National Science Foundation; Funding provided by the Paul Dirac Fund

Affiliation

Natural Sciences

Field of Study

Artificial Intelligence & Theoretical Physics
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Dan Roberts works on the ways in which tools and perspectives from theoretical physics can be applied to AI. He is a co-author of The Principles of Deep Learning Theory (https://deeplearningtheory.com/). He previously worked on quantum gravity, quantum field theory, and quantum information theory: he studied the relationship between chaos and black holes.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Natural Sciences

Degrees

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D.
2016

Honors

2009
Hertz Foundation Fellowship
2009
Marshall Scholarship

Appointments

Center for Theoretical Physics at MIT
2020
Research Affiliate
OpenAI
2024
Research Scientist
Salesforce
2019–2023
Principal Researcher
Facebook AI Research
2018–2019
Research Scientist