Lancelot Da Costa

Bio for invited talks

Lance Da Costa is a Machine Learning researcher at VERSES and a visiting postdoc at the ELLIS Institute Tübingen. He aims to understand intelligence, cognition and the mind, and use this knowledge to advance science, engineering and society. He has authored over 45 papers in the fields of artificial intelligence, mathematical physics and cognitive science. He received the Best Maths PhD thesis prize from Imperial College London, Best Paper awards from Entropy, and excellence awards from the American Physical Society, G-Research, Luxembourg's National Research Fund, and Imperial College London. His work has been featured on Machine Learning Street Talk, the Active Inference Institute and the Singularity project. Lance received his PhD in Mathematics from Imperial College London and Master degrees in Pure Mathematics from Cambridge University and Neuroscience from UCL. More information can be found on his website: lancelotdacosta.com

Personal background 🌍

I was born in Japan and lived in 8 different countries... and counting!
I spent my teens living in Luxembourg, where I was at one of the European Schools.
I then lived in Lausanne, Toronto and Cambridge (UK) to study Mathematics.
I then became interested in artificial intelligence, so I moved to London to learn about intelligence in the brain.

CV

Lancelot_Da_Costa_Academic_CV.pdf