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Apr 13, 2026 In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness, Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models was accepted to GECCO 2026 as a full paper!
Nov 10, 2025 I’ll be speaking at AIIDE 2025, presenting our work on Multi-Agent PCGRL, which is nominated for a Best Paper Award!
Oct 01, 2025 I’ll be at ALife 2025, presenting a slice of my work on Pathfinding Neural Cellular Automata. Here’s our poster, a video explainer, and our extended abstract, which focuses on the aspect of the work in which we evolve mazes to be maximally challenging to the Pathfinding-NCA while it learns.
Aug 15, 2025 I’ve started an internship at Sakana AI, working with Sebastian Risi. We’re building prototypes of open-ended evolutionary loops that use LLMs to write grammars in MarkovJunior, a rewrite-rule-based language for procedural content generation.
Jun 01, 2025 I’ll be at GECCO 2025, presenting Autoverse. Here’s our poster, and a video explainer.
Jan 13, 2025 I’ve found a cat under a Christmas Tree!