Speaker Bio — Please use this for introductions and event announcements
Robert Tjarko Lange is a Staff Research Scientist and Founding Member at Sakana AI, where he works on automated scientific discovery, self-improving agentic systems, and evolutionary computation. He holds degrees in Economics (Cologne), Data Science (Pompeu Fabra), and Computing (Imperial College London), and is completing his PhD at TU Berlin. Previously, he interned twice at Google DeepMind (Tokyo and London). His recent work includes ShinkaEvolve, a system for open-ended agentic discovery, and The AI Scientist, a framework for fully automated scientific research.
| Date | Title | Venue | Media |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26/06/09 | Shinka Evolve, Evolved | AIDDA Institute | |
| 26/05/26 | Shinka Evolve, Evolved | AI Agents for Discovery in the Wild (CAIS 2026) | |
| 26/05/22 | Toward Open-Ended Agentic Discovery | AISEM 2026 | |
| 26/04/24 | ShinkaEvolve @Yale Workshop | AI for Scientific Discovery Workshop | |
| 26/03/19 | Toward Open-Ended Agentic Discovery: LLMs as Artists, Scientists, and Evolutionary Engines | International Symposium of Life-Nonlife Transition | |
| 26/03/14 | MLST Podcast: Evolving AI with Shinka | Machine Learning Street Talk | |
| 25/12/23 | Toward Open-Ended Agentic Discovery: LLMs as Artists, Scientists, and Evolutionary Engines | SciProdLLM Workshop | |
| 25/12/12 | ShinkaEvolve: Towards Open-Ended And Sample-Efficient Program Evolution | AutoML Seminar | |
| 25/10/31 | ShinkaEvolve @DLCT | ML Collective | |
| 25/10/11 | Coexistence of Humans and AI: How Should We Engage with Emerging Intelligence? | Osaka World Expo 2025 | |
| 25/09/18 | Panel: The AI Kernel Revolution — Rethinking Execution from the Ground Up | AI Infra Summit @ PyTorch Conference | |
| 25/09/03 | Toward Open-Ended Agentic Discovery: LLMs as Artists, Scientists, and Evolutionary Engines | SymGenAI4Sci (SEMANTiCS 2025) | |
| 25/06/18 | The AI Scientist-v2: Workshop-Level Automated Scientific Discovery via Agentic Tree Search | ICSSI 2025 Keynote | |
| 25/04/11 | The AI Scientist-v2 @AE Global Summit | AE: Global Summit on Open Problems for AI | |
| 25/03/01 | Can AI Improve Itself? (with Chris Lu, Cong Lu) | Machine Learning Street Talk | |
| 24/11/15 | AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Scientific Discovery | BLISS Speaker Series | |
| 24/09/19 | The AI Scientist @AutoML Seminar | AutoML Seminar | |
| 24/08/23 | The AI Scientist @DLCT | ML Collective | |
| 23/07/25 | Discovering Black Box Optimizers via Evolutionary Meta Learning | Berkeley MARL Seminar | |
| 23/06/20 | evosax — JAX-Based Evolution Strategies | PyData Berlin 2023 |