PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Simon Osindero

Also known as Simon Kayode Osindero

Simon Osindero is an artificial intelligence researcher at Google DeepMind. They completed a doctorate at University College London in 2004 with the dissertation Contrastive Topographic Models. In 2006 they co-wrote A Fast Learning Algorithm For Deep Belief Networks with Hinton and Teh, published in Neural Computation. TWIML introduced them as a staff research scientist at DeepMind in 2019. The compute-optimal training study they co-authored won a NeurIPS 2022 Outstanding Paper Award, and Genie: Generative Interactive Environments won the ICML 2024 Best Paper award.

Works
86
Citations
29,004
h-index
29

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2004

    Contrastive topographic models

    They complete a doctorate at University College London in 2004 with the dissertation Contrastive Topographic Models.

  2. 2006

    A fast learning algorithm

    They co-write A Fast Learning Algorithm For Deep Belief Networks with Hinton and Teh, published in Neural Computation in 2006.

  3. 2019

    Staff research scientist at DeepMind

    TWIML introduces them as a staff research scientist at DeepMind on its AI Rewind 2018 episode in 2019.

  4. 2022

    A NeurIPS Outstanding Paper

    They co-author An empirical analysis of compute-optimal large language model training, which receives a NeurIPS 2022 Outstanding Paper Award.

  5. 2024

    A best paper for Genie

    They co-author Genie: Generative Interactive Environments, which wins the ICML 2024 Best Paper award.

  6. As of October 2026

    At Google DeepMind

    They work at Google DeepMind as an artificial intelligence researcher.

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  1. Simon Osindero - Wikidata wikidata.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. Simon Osindero - The Mathematics Genealogy Project mathgenealogy.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. Simon Osindero's Home-Page cs.toronto.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. AI Rewind 2018: Trends in Reinforcement Learning | TWIML - The Voice of Machine Learning & AI twimlai.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. NeurIPS 2022 Awards neurips.cc. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. [2203.15556] Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models arxiv.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. ICML Oral Genie: Generative Interactive Environments icml.cc. Checked 14 October 2026.
  8. [2402.15391] Genie: Generative Interactive Environments arxiv.org. Checked 14 October 2026.