Roy Fox

Roy Fox is an Assistant Professor and founder of the Intelligent Dynamics Lab (indylab) in the Department of Computer Science in the Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. He’s affiliated with the Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems (CML), the Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization Center (ACO), and the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences (IMBS).

Fox was previously a postdoc in Berkeley AI Research (BAIR), working with Ion Stoica in the RISELab, and with Ken Goldberg in the AUTOLAB, in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. His Ph.D. was with Naftali Tishby in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University, and his MSc was with Moshe Tennenholtz in the Computer Science Department at the Technion IIT. Fox was a Ph.D. exchange student with Liam Paninski in the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University.

His research interests include theory and applications of control learning — reinforcement learning, control theory, information theory, and robotics. His current research focuses on structure, exploration, and optimization in deep control learning of virtual and physical agents. Fox is currently looking to hire postdocs and advise additional graduate and undergraduate students.

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem