Cong Lu
Founding Member at Recursive
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCong Lu is a founding member at Recursive building systems for open-ended scientific discovery, bringing nine years of research and engineering experience across DeepMind, Sakana AI, Waymo, Microsoft Research, and academia. He contributed to high-profile DeepMind releases (Genie 3 and SIMA-2) and helped deliver The AI Scientist at Sakana AI, demonstrating a knack for turning ambitious research into working agents and world models. With a PhD from Oxford in Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems and postdoctoral work at UBC, he bridges deep theoretical foundations and practical agent engineering. Based in London, he combines expertise in simulation, multi-agent learning, and autonomous experimentation, and often operates at the intersection of foundation models and interactive environments. An underappreciated strength is his repeated role in shipping end-to-end research products that automate complex scientific and simulation workflows.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems at University of OxfordHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Robert Gordon's College
English
Github Skills (36)
agentic10
tree-search10
ai10
generative-model9
artificial-general-intelligence8
reinforcement-learning8
robotics8
multi-agent-reinforcement-learning8
simulation7
survey7
decision-making7
foundation-models7
nlp6
interactive6
natural-language-processing6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
conglu1997/SynthER
May 2023 - Apr 2026
Synthetic Experience Replay
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 2 years 11 months
conglu1997/v-d4rl
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
Challenges and Opportunities in Offline Reinforcement Learning from Visual Observations
Contributions:1 release, 8 commits, 32 pushes in 5 months
reinforcement-learning
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