Hi there, I'm Cam Allen

I'm a postdoc studying AI with Stuart Russell at the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) at UC Berkeley. In spring 2024, I was also a lecturer for CS 188, Berkeley's upper-division artificial intelligence course. Previously, I completed my PhD at Brown University, advised by George Konidaris.

I am interested in the foundations of intelligence—the computations that enable agency, learning, planning, abstraction, and interaction. My research is focused on trying to answer some of the following questions:

I build AI systems as a way to study these core aspects of intelligence, in the hopes that they will allow us to better understand ourselves and our world, and ultimately to improve both.


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