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Dr. Jessica Hamrick is a Research Scientist at DeepMind. She holds a PhD in Psychology from UC Berkeley. 

Featured References 

Structured agents for physical construction 
Victor Bapst, Alvaro Sanchez-Gonzalez, Carl Doersch, Kimberly L. Stachenfeld, Pushmeet Kohli, Peter W. Battaglia, Jessica B. Hamrick 

Analogues of mental simulation and imagination in deep learning 

Jessica Hamrick 

Additional References 

• Metacontrol for Adaptive Imagination-Based Optimization 
  Jessica B. Hamrick, Andrew J. Ballard, Razvan Pascanu, Oriol Vinyals, Nicolas Heess, Peter W. Battaglia 
• Surprising Negative Results for Generative Adversarial Tree Search  
  Kamyar Azizzadenesheli, Brandon Yang, Weitang Liu, Zachary C Lipton, Animashree Anandkumar 
• Metareasoning and Mental Simulation 
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• Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm 
  David Silver, Thomas Hubert, Julian Schrittwieser, Ioannis Antonoglou, Matthew Lai, Arthur Guez, Marc Lanctot, Laurent Sifre, Dharshan Kumaran, Thore Graepel, Timothy Lillicrap, Karen Simonyan, Demis Hassabis 
• Object-oriented state editing for HRL 
  Victor Bapst, Alvaro Sanchez-Gonzalez, Omar Shams, Kimberly Stachenfeld, Peter W. Battaglia, Satinder Singh, Jessica B. Hamrick 
• FeUdal Networks for Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning 
  Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets, Simon Osindero, Tom Schaul, Nicolas Heess, Max Jaderberg, David Silver, Koray Kavukcuoglu 
• PILCO: A Model-Based and Data-Efficient Approach to Policy Search 
  Marc Peter Deisenroth, Carl Edward Rasmussen 
• Blueberry Earth 
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