Lawrence Thul
I’m an AI researcher with a passion for decision intelligence. I enjoy building systems that reason about uncertainty and make decisions autonomously. I have extensive experience in reinforcement learning, stochastic optimization, time series forecasting, and deep learning, in both academia and industry.
I earned my PhD from Princeton University’s CASTLE Lab under Professor Warren B. Powell, specializing in stochastic optimization and multi-agent sequential decision-making. I then served as Director of Artificial Intelligence at Optimal Dynamics for five years, leading the company’s AI and machine learning efforts from the early days through Series C.
I’ve recently started an independent research period, studying reinforcement learning and alignment algorithms for LLMs, with particular interest in RLVR.