Hi, I'm Ben đź‘‹

Ben McDowell

🎓 I am currently studying MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh, where I am a member of the MARBLE (Multi-Agent, Reinforcement, Behavior and Learning) Research Group, the EdinburghAI Society, and HumanEd (Robotics Society). My research interests include robotics, reinforcement learning, representation learning, and continual learning.

📚 Previously, I completed my BSc in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bath, graduating with First Class Honours.

đź’Ľ I have also completed software and data engineering internships at Amazon, Jefferies, and Runna (Strava).

🤝 I am always keen to talk and discuss new opportunities, so feel free to get in touch.

Featured Projects

Semantically Grounded Unsupervised Skill Discovery via Vision-Language Models

Project exploring how vision-language model priors can guide unsupervised skill discovery toward interpretable, reusable behaviors with stronger downstream transfer.

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Breaking the Curse: Is Few-Shot Semi-Supervised Learning the Answer to Multilingual Neural Machine Translation?

Research proposal from my second-year of undergraduate studies, exploring a new approach to Multilingual Neural Machine Translation inspired by a fusion of two existing frameworks.

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Last updated: July 26, 2026