Dr. Jakob Foerster

Professor

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Biography

Jakob Foerster joined the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford in the fall of 2021. He completed his PhD at Oxford, which advanced deep multi-agent reinforcement learning as a cutting-edge area of AI research. Prior to this, he interned at leading organizations such as Google Brain, OpenAI, and DeepMind. After his PhD, he worked as a research scientist at Facebook AI Research in California, where he continued his foundational work in AI. Foerster was also the lead organizer of the Emergent Communication workshop at NeurIPS 2017 and received the prestigious CIFAR AI chair in 2019. His research focuses on enabling AI agents to learn cooperation and communication, addressing the zero-shot coordination problem, a crucial step toward effective human-AI interaction. His work has been cited over 5000 times, with an h-index of 29.

Research Interests

Requirements for University of Oxford

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.7
IELTS
Listening
Required:7
Reading
Required:7
Writing
Required:7
Speaking
Required:7
Overall
Required:7.5
TOEFL
Listening
Required:22
Reading
Required:24
Writing
Required:24
Speaking
Required:25
Total
Required:110
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in Politics, International Relations, Economics, History, Law, Philosophy or Sociology
Application Checklist
  • Three academic references
  • Official transcripts
  • CV/Resume
  • Statement of Purpose (1,000 words)
  • Two academic essays (2,000 words each)
Specialization Notes

Department of Politics and International Relations - Higher Level English requirement.