
Max led the Open-Ended Learning research team at Google DeepMind and pioneered numerous algorithms combining large-scale deep learning, reinforcement learning, and generative models to achieve world-leading results with AI.
Prior to that, Max was CEO and co-founder of Vision Factory, a company specialising in image recognition technology with deep learning. Vision Factory joined the Google family in 2014 to become part of Google DeepMind.
He completed his undergraduate degree in engineering science at the University of Oxford and his PhD with the Visual Geometry Group at the University of Oxford, where he developed deep learning algorithms for image understanding. He is widely published in journals and conferences, and his work features in textbooks.