Marcus Hutter

Marcus Hutter is Senior Researcher at DeepMind in London and Professor at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia (fulltime till 2019 and honorary since then). He is founder and chair of the ongoing Human Knowledge Compression Contest. He received a master's degree in computer science in 1992 from the University of Technology in Munich, Germany, a PhD in theoretical particle physics in 1996, and completed his Habilitation in 2003. He worked as an active software developer at startup BrainLAB for 4½ years, before (re)commencing his academic career in 2000 at the Artificial Intelligence (AI) institute IDSIA in Lugano, Switzerland, where he stayed for six years. Since 2000, he has mainly worked on fundamental questions in AI, resulting in over 200 peer-reviewed research publications and his first book “Universal Artificial Intelligence” (Springer, EATCS, 2005). He has served (as PC member, chair, organizer) for numerous conferences, and reviewed for all major conferences and journals. He has given numerous invited lectures and his work in AI and statistics was nominated for and received several awards (Lindley, Kurzweil, JAIR, UAI, AGI, Alignment, IJCAI).