Interests

• Machine Learning for Games
• Novel Compute Paradigms
• FOSS
• Reinforcement Learning
• Energy Based Models
• JAX

Professional Activities

• Senior Research Engineer @ a probabilistic chip company
• Editor @ Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)
• Reviewer @
  • NeurIPS: 2022 (Top Reviewer), 2023, 2024 (Top Reviewer), 2025
  • ICLR: 2022 (Highlighted Reviewer), 2024, 2025
  • ICML: 2023, 2024, 2025
  • Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC): 2024
  • TMLR: 2025-Present
  • ML Reproducibility Challenge (MLRC): 2022, 2023
  • Institute of Physics (IOP): 2024
  • IEEE Software: 2024
  • JOSS: 2025
• Previously @
  • IBM Quantum

Blog

Always human slop, never AI slop: https://cogitocomrade.com/.

Contact

Do something interesting, and I’ll contact you. Or via contact_owenl@protonmail.com.