I’m Phil, a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, where I’ve been a core contributor on Genie 2 and Genie 3. I’m interested in generative video models, high fidelity world models, and machine learning that survives the test of scale.

Before this I was a PhD student at the University of Oxford, supervised by Prof. Steve Roberts in the Machine Learning Research Group. I’ve completed internships at Waymo and at Microsoft Research. I’ve also been fortunate enough to work with Prof. Sergey Levine as a visiting student at RAIL Lab at UC Berkeley.

Previously I was an AI Resident at Microsoft Research Cambridge. I have Masters Degrees in Machine Learning and Engineering Science from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford respectively. In a previous life, I was a Management Consultant at Accenture.

In my spare time I like to play the bass guitar and read. I can also speak Mandarin to a relatively fluent level, which has led me to work for extended periods of time in China and Hong Kong.

If you want to email me, please do so at balljohnphilip AT gmail DOT com.