bio

Dr. Stephen James is CEO & Founder of Neuracore, a robot learning cloud ecosystem and community, and Assistant Professor at Imperial College London, where he leads the Scalable Whole-body Intelligent Robot Learning Lab (SWIRL). His lab pushes the boundaries of robot learning by developing systems that leverage their entire physical embodiment, combining 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, Stephen was the PI of the Dyson Robot Learning Lab in London, UK. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley working with Prof. Pieter Abbeel, and completed both his PhD and Master’s degree at Imperial College London, under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Davison.