Felipe Leno da Silva (Leno)

 leno@llnl.gov

Senior Staff Reinforcement Learning Researcher
Data Science Institute Scientific Outreach Coordinator
Lawrence Livermore National Lab - LLNL
Los Angeles Metro Area, USA (remote)

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Last Update in: March 22th, 2025.

I am currently a Senior Staff Reinforcement Learning Researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, where I push forward the state-of-the-art in Reinforcement Learning in several projects related to national defense, including AI-powered Antibody Therapeutics and Vaccine development. I also act as the Scientific Outreach Coordinator for the LLNL Data Science Institute, supporting the organization of events to help set priorities for AI developments at the Lab. I originally joined LLNL as a Postdoc (2021) and was converted to Full Staff in December of 2022. My Ms.c. and Ph.D. degrees have been awarded by the University of São Paulo, Brazil, where I was advised by Professor Anna Reali Costa. I have held a Postdoc position at the Advanced Institute for AI during 2019-2021, where I helped to approximate the industry and academic sectors in Brazil. During 2018-2019, I was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, where I worked with Professor Peter Stone. I also interned at Borealis AI, where I did research related to my thesis topic with Matthew Taylor.

My works are concerned with several topics of Machine Learning, but I am better known for my research on Transfer Learning for Multiagent Reinforcement Learning (read more about it in my book or survey). More recently, I have been dedicating most of my time working on Machine Learning techniques to support the development of Antibody Therapeutics and Vaccines. I was involved in the organization of several academic workshops, including the Adaptive Learning Agents (ALA) Workshop at AAMAS, the Scaling-Up Reinforcement Learning (SURL) Workshop series, and Latinx in IA at NeurIPS.

I welcome new collaboration opportunities, just e-mail me (however, I cannot do much to help you land a specific position at the lab, so unless I personally shared the position saying I am the PI e-mailing me won't be productive).

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Awards

  • LLNL Innovation and Achievements Award Lawrence Livermore National Lab Awards, 2025.
  • LLNL Director’s Science and Technology Award Recipient and Director's Award in Publication Recipient Lawrence Livermore National Lab Awards, 2022.
  • CTDIAC Third Place in the Brazilian Thesis Competition on AI, edition 2018-2020.
  • Thesis-USP Honorable Mention as Best Engineering Thesis at the University of São Paulo, 2020.
  • HLF Outstanding Young Researcher, invited to the 6th and 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forums (HLF), 2018, 2020.
  • BRACIS Best Paper Award 1st place: "Object-Oriented Reinforcement Learning in Cooperative Multiagent Domains", Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS), 2016.
  • AAAI Best Student Poster - Honarable Mention, "An Advising Framework for Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Sytems", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2017.
  • Hackaton First Place: 311 Calls and 500 Cities Data Science Hackaton, The University of Texas at Austin, 2018.

Academic Service More »

Area Chair
  • RLC: 2025, [Reinforcement Learning Conference]
Senior Program Committee
  • IJCAI: 2021, 2025 [International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence]
  • ECAI: 2024, [European Conference on Artificial Intelligence]
  • AAAI: 2021, [AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence]

Conference Program Committee / Reviewer

Workshop Organizer


Other Passions

  • Music I've been playing electric guitar since I was 15 years old. Even though I'm far from claiming to be in a professional level, you can count on me if you want to have fun playing some old good heavy metal.
  • Horror Movies I was just a little boy when I first watched "Night of the living dead". Thereafter I cannot spend a week without watching a B movie (specially the brain-eater zombie ones).
  • Photography My Instagram account: f.leno

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