Olaf Lipinski

Olaf Lipinski

Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence

University of Southampton

About Me

I am a Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton, having recently completed my Ph.D. in emergent communication. I’m currently applying machine learning techniques to maritime engineering challenges, working with industry partners on optimizing car carrier designs through neural networks that estimate wave-induced power requirements. My doctoral research investigated how autonomous agents develop language from scratch. I focused on temporal dynamics in agent communication, designing architectures that enable temporal referencing and improve strategy development. My research examining spatio-temporal relationships in interpretable emergent communication has been published in venues such as NeurIPS and ICLR.

Interests
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Emergent Communication
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Data-Centric Engineering
Education
  • PhD in Artificial Intelligence, 2020–2025

    University of Southampton

  • BSc in Computer Science, 2016–2020

    University of Liverpool