Brian Tanner
Research Scientist
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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SeniorBrian Tanner is a seasoned AI entrepreneur and researcher with 25 years in agent-oriented reinforcement learning. As co-founder and CEO of Artificial.Agency since 2023, he leads efforts to bring agent-driven AI to the world, starting in video games. His prior roles include Senior Research Developer / People Manager at DeepMind (2018–2023) and President of Fire Plan Strategies (2010–2018), blending research leadership with strategic business-building. He holds a Master’s in Computing Science from the University of Alberta and a BSc (Honours, Coop) in Computer Science from the University of Manitoba, with early career experience in technical support. Based in Edmonton, Alberta, he is driven by creating simple, elegant solutions that empower people to achieve what they believed was previously impossible.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (62)
validations10
forms10
uitableview10
swift10
uiview9
ios9
form-builder9
reward9
automatic-differentiation9
cocoapods8
python8
jit8
composable8
gpu8
machine-learning8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
abhisheknaik96/differential-value-iteration
Aug 2021 - Jul 2022
Experiments in creating the ultimate average-reward planning algorithm
Contributions:7 reviews, 82 PRs, 46 pushes in 11 months
planningultimaterewardaverage
btanner/appbundle-maven-plugin
Feb 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:1 release, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
maven-plugindependenciesmavenbundleos-x
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