Daphne Cornelisse
@daphne_cor
Ph.D. student @nyuniversity • Building human-like agents 🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/daphne-cornelisse.bsky.social
Absolutely thrilled to be doing my internship with @Waymo's safety research team! ☀️ I'll be spending the summer working on modeling human behavior in near collision scenarios. 🤹 Please reach out if you’re in the Bay Area and want to chat!

An excerpt from “The woman who smashed codes” that provides a nice perspective on the scientific method: in developing theories, we must do our best to not fool ourselves

Join the next seminar in our 'Updates in Cooperative AI' series exploring 'Modelling humans with neural networks for behavioural mechanism-design', live August 7th (5pm BST, 9am PT, 12pm ET) led by Raphael Köster. Link below.
We’re excited to announce our next speaker: Julian Togelius from NYU! @togelius will share how RL powers game-playing agents, player modeling, procedural content generation, and why games remain essential testbeds for AI research. Join us at the @RL_Conference to find out more!
We’ll be presenting this fascinating work on Thursday afternoon @icmlconf. I’ve been optimistic about the efficacy of RL in the real world for a long time. Scaling RL to develop extensively robust driving behaviors only serves to deepen my excitement. #icml25
We've built a simulated driving agent that we trained on 1.6 billion km of driving with no human data. It is SOTA on every planning benchmark we tried. In self-play, it goes 20 years between collisions.
🚀 Launch day! The NeurIPS 2025 PokéAgent Challenge is live. Two tracks: ① Showdown Battling – imperfect-info, turn-based strategy ② Pokemon Emerald Speedrunning – long horizon RPG planning 5 M labeled replays • starter kit • baselines. Bring your LLM, RL, or hybrid…
Can an AI model predict perfectly and still have a terrible world model? What would that even mean? Our new ICML paper formalizes these questions One result tells the story: A transformer trained on 10M solar systems nails planetary orbits. But it botches gravitational laws 🧵
hey everyone!! I'm attending ICML next week and am still looking for a woman to share my hotel room with. if anyone knows someone looking please let me know! 🙏
We now know RL agents can zero-shot crush driving benchmarks. Can we put them on a car and replace the planning stack? We're hiring a postdoc at NYU to find out! Email me if interested and please help us get the word out.
A major cheat code in life: Being a pleasure to deal with. Kind when others aren’t. Calm when things go sideways. Reliable under pressure. Intelligence alone is overrated. Be someone who lightens the load for folks around them. People value people who make their lives easier.
Yes!!! This is so exciting
New York, we're coming back to the Big Apple next month! 🍎🗽We want to serve New Yorkers in the future, and we’re working towards that goal. Here’s how:👇
Wow, the exponential rollout at @Waymo is super exciting. Most deployed real-world autonomous agent and multi-agent system!
Safety is our top priority. 🤝 In a move towards greater transparency regarding our safety processes, we're publicly sharing the twelve acceptance criteria that we use to assess the Waymo Driver’s readiness for deployment. Read more here: waymo.com/blog/2025/06/s…
Love this work! The code looks clean and easy to use too
To help computational cognitive scientist engage with more naturalistic experiments, I've made NiceWebRL. NiceWebRL is a Python library for designing human subject experiments that leverage machine reinforcement learning environments. github.com/KempnerInstitu…
It's interesting how activities that feel directionless can end up being the most productive
Love this effort from @marimo_io to make notebooks perfectly reproducible. Very useful for open science marimo.io/blog/sandboxed…
An important skill underlying good paper writing seems to be the ability to tell a clear, coherent story with the data and findings at hand.
Spotify playlists should have an entropy slider that controls the level of randomness or novelty in recommended songs