Stephen James

I am CEO & Founder of Neuracore, a robot learning cloud ecosystem and community, and Assistant Professor at Imperial College London, where I lead the Scalable Whole-body Intelligent Robot Learning Lab (SWIRL). Our lab pushes the boundaries of robot learning by developing systems that leverage their entire physical embodiment. We combine reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and large-scale foundation models to build robots whose skills scale with data, compute, and experience, with a relentless focus on sample efficiency and generalisation.

Previously, I was the principal investigator of the Dyson Robot Learning Lab in London, UK, where I led a large concentration of the top robot learning talent in the world. Prior to that, I was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, advised by Pieter Abbeel, and completed my PhD at Imperial College London, under the supervision of Andrew Davison. I am Associate Editor of IEEE RAL and ICRA, and serve as Area Chair of NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR,. and TMLR. For a formal bio, please see here.