Lancelot Da Costa

Currently I work as an ML Researcher at VERSES with Karl Friston and a visiting postdoc at the ELLIS Institute with Bernhard Schölkopf. I received the Best Maths PhD Thesis Prize from Imperial College London in 2025, a Best Paper award from Entropy, and excellence awards from the American Physical Society, G-Research, UK's EPSRC, Luxembourg's National Research Fund, Imperial College London, and others. Get in touch 📩: lance.dacosta at verses.ai 📍 Lyon 🇫🇷 & Tübingen 🇩🇪 See the overview of our research program: Toward an Agent Foundation Model. Interested in joining? ➡️ Please read this and contact me!

Lancelot Da Costa Search this site Embedded Files Skip to main content Skip to navigation Hi, I'm Lance! I am a mathematician developing foundations for understanding and building intelligence. My work has formalized a key theory of brain function, and I now use these ideas to develop AI agents that learn like scientists . Currently I work as a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems with Bernhard Schölkopf . Previously , I worked at VERSES with Karl Friston and interned at MILA with Yoshua Bengio . I received the Best Maths PhD Thesis Prize from Imperial College London in

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