Brett Daley

Machine Learning Research Scientist

About Me

Brett Daley - Machine Learning Research Scientist

I am a research scientist at Meta, where I work on reinforcement learning and large language models.

I received my PhD in Computing Science from the University of Alberta (), advised by Marlos C. Machado and Martha White. My thesis was titled “Multistep Credit Assignment in Deep Reinforcement Learning”. During my PhD, I completed internships at Meta and Sony AI.

Previously, I earned my MS in Computer Science and BS in Electrical/Computer Engineering from Northeastern University (), and my MMS in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University () as a Schwarzman Scholar. During my undergraduate studies, I completed internships at Tesla and SpaceX, which ignited my initial career interest in AI.

Research Interests

My research has focused on the temporal credit-assignment problem and efficient reward-based learning. I am particularly interested in addressing high-dimensional environments where classical methods become infeasible. To this end, my algorithms have often utilized deep neural networks to process rich sensory data, which present a variety of challenges to long-term credit assignment.

See my Google Scholar profile for a list of my publications.