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# Richard Ngo

Joined

April 2021

#### Names

Richard Ngo(Preferred)

#### Emails

\*\*\*\*@cam.ac.uk(Confirmed)

#### Personal Links

[Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7CY93A4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao)

[DBLP](https://dblp.org/pid/276/6932)

#### Career & Education History

**PhD student**

University of Cambridge (cam.ac.uk)

_2020 – 2021_

**Research engineer**

DeepMind (deepmind.com)

_2018 – 2020_

#### Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

No relations added

#### Expertise

Reinforcement learning

,

reward modeling

,

human feedback

_Present_

AI safety

,

value learning

,

side effects

_Present_

#### Publications

- #### [REALab: An Embedded Perspective on Tampering](https://openreview.net/forum?id=9LxMsvMm5n9&referrer=%5Bthe%20profile%20of%20Richard%20Ngo%5D(%2Fprofile%3Fid%3D~Richard_Ngo1))



[Ramana Kumar](https://dblp.org/search/pid/api?q=author:Ramana_Kumar: ""), [Jonathan Uesato](https://dblp.org/search/pid/api?q=author:Jonathan_Uesato: ""), [Richard Ngo](https://openreview.net/profile?id=~Richard_Ngo1 ""), [Tom Everitt](https://dblp.org/search/pid/api?q=author:Tom_Everitt: ""), [Victoria Krakovna](https://openreview.net/profile?id=~Viktoriya_Krakovna1 ""), [Shane Legg](https://dblp.org/search/pid/api?q=author:Shane_Legg: "")



  - 2020 (modified: 04 Nov 2022)
  - CoRR 2020
  - Readers:  Everyone

- #### [Avoiding Tampering Incentives in Deep RL via Decoupled Approval](https://openreview.net/forum?id=nV_r62S0sTr&referrer=%5Bthe%20profile%20of%20Richard%20Ngo%5D(%2Fprofile%3Fid%3D~Richard_Ngo1))



[Jonathan Uesato](https://dblp.org/search/pid/api?q=author:Jonathan_Uesato: ""), [Ramana Kumar](https://dblp.org/search/pid/api?q=author:Ramana_Kumar: ""), [Victoria Krakovna](https://openreview.net/profile?id=~Viktoriya_Krakovna1 ""), [Tom Everitt](https://dblp.org/search/pid/api?q=author:Tom_Everitt: ""), [Richard Ngo](https://openreview.net/profile?id=~Richard_Ngo1 ""), [Shane Legg](https://dblp.org/search/pid/api?q=author:Shane_Legg: "")



  - 2020 (modified: 04 Nov 2022)
  - CoRR 2020
  - Readers:  Everyone

- #### [Avoiding Side Effects By Considering Future Tasks](https://openreview.net/forum?id=Ky68fO24IIW&referrer=%5Bthe%20profile%20of%20Richard%20Ngo%5D(%2Fprofile%3Fid%3D~Richard_Ngo1))



[Victoria Krakovna](https://openreview.net/profile?id=~Viktoriya_Krakovna1 ""), [Laurent Orseau](https://dblp.org/search/pid/api?q=author:Laurent_Orseau: ""), [Richard Ngo](https://openreview.net/profile?id=~Richard_Ngo1 ""), [Miljan Martic](https://dblp.org/search/pid/api?q=author:Miljan_Martic: ""), [Shane Legg](https://dblp.org/search/pid/api?q=author:Shane_Legg: "")



  - 2020 (modified: 04 Nov 2022)
  - CoRR 2020
  - Readers:  Everyone

#### Co-Authors

- [Jonathan Uesato](https://dblp.org/search/pid/api?q=author:Jonathan_Uesato:)
- [Laurent Orseau](https://dblp.org/search/pid/api?q=author:Laurent_Orseau:)
- [Miljan Martic](https://dblp.org/search/pid/api?q=author:Miljan_Martic:)
- [Ramana Kumar](https://dblp.org/s

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