Khurram Javed

Founder

Machine learning

Now Co-founder · Oak Lab

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264 citations (OpenAlex, 2026-11-01)

Latest move

Keen Technologies → Oak Lab

Founded · 2026-07-14 · Own post ↗

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INTERVIEW · 2026-08-18

Rich Sutton and Khurram Javed: models stop learning once deployed, and Oak Lab is building agents that keep learning from experience

Did his PhD with Richard Sutton at Alberta on real-time reinforcement learning in 'big worlds', after an MSc with Martha White on continual learning. Worked at John Carmack's Keen Technologies, then co-founded Oak Lab with Sutton.

Path

Current

Oak LabNEWFounder

KT
Keen Technologies2024 – 2026Research Scientist
University of Alberta2022 – 2025PhD, Computing Science, advised by Richard S. Sutton
Mila2020Visiting Researcher (advisor Yoshua Bengio)
University of Alberta2018 – 2020MSc, Computing Science, advised by Martha White
HS
HiSilicon, Huawei Research2019Research Associate
NU
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)2014 – 2018BE, Software Engineering, advised by Faisal Shafait
EPFL2017Research Intern

Papers

Meta-Learning Representations for Continual LearningNeurIPS 2019 2019Uses meta-learning to find representations that let a network learn online from a stream without forgetting.
Scalable Real-Time Recurrent Learning Using Columnar-Constructive NetworksJMLR 2023 2023Shows recurrent networks can be trained online without backpropagation through time by building them in columns.

Interviews

2026-08-18Rich Sutton and Khurram Javed: models stop learning once deployed, and Oak Lab is building agents that keep learning from experience · Training Data (Sequoia Capital)

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