Eddie Bullock

EDDIE BULLOCK

I am a PhD researcher at the University of Cambridge, work on autonomous vehicles at Minimal, writer read by 58,000+ people, and occasional ultramarathon runner.

PhD research

I am a PhD researcher at the University of Cambridge, funded by the Medical Research Council industrial Collaborative Award in Science and Engineering scholarship.

Medical Research Council UK Research and Innovation

I work on vision-language models. I am building end-to-end models that interpret social interaction, and deploying them to run on wearable glasses at low latency (100 ms). I conduct mechanistic interpretability on how these models represent a social scene. We collaborate closely with AI researchers at Stanford and Harvard.

University of Cambridge Stanford University Harvard University

Publications are available on Google Scholar.

How accurate are LLMs on multimodal theory of mind tasks Natural language processing for analysis of electronic health records

I work closely with Emteq Labs. They make non-invasive human-computer interfaces.

Emteq Labs Sense smart glasses.
Emteq Labs

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AI engineering internship at Minimal

Minimal

I am working on a vision-language-action model for an autonomous delivery robot. I am building the pipelines for data collection and training, fine-tuning the model for deployment, collecting synthetic data, and developing the simulation environment.

A Minimal autonomous truck on a London street. A Minimal delivery robot on a city street.

Highlights

UK Research and Innovation Isambard-AI

Project lead on a UKRI government grant awarding up to £300,000 in GPU hours on the Isambard-AI supercomputer.

I led Minimal World Models v1. It compiles a real city into a metric 3D simulation, cheaply enough that the world is ready before the robot arrives. This is Minato, Tokyo.

I built the open-loop and closed-loop evaluation pipelines that score the driving model in simulation, with traffic and pedestrians, before it runs on the robot.

I built the photorealism pipeline that turns the simulator into driving video, keeping the motion and the street layout so the model can train on it.

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Writing and science communication

I write about AI and neuroscience for 58,000+ people on Bluesky and Substack. I run workshops for teachers on AI and neuroscience in schools across the UK, and I recently delivered them to charities in Kolkata.

I was shortlisted for the Medical Research Council's Max Perutz Science Communication Award.

Eddie Bullock speaking to schoolchildren seated on the floor of a hall. Eddie Bullock speaking to a group seated around a table in a library.

I host Bridging the Gap, a podcast of interviews with scientists.

Eddie Bullock interviewing a guest on purple sofas, with a camera and lights in the foreground. An interview filmed in a gym, with cameras, a light, and a monitor in the foreground.

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Fun

I am currently raising money for sarcoma.

101km, with 3,000m of elevation, Peak District ultramarathon with Sacha.

Eddie Bullock and Sacha finishing a Peak District ultramarathon, arms raised.

800km in 8 days for Alzheimer's. We raised £7,000. Follow the journey here.

The team after the 800km ride for the Alzheimer's Society, in matching shirts by the sea.

I will be running the London Marathon and the Cotswold ultramarathon in 2027.

I'm also converting a classic VW T3.

A red Volkswagen T3 with the front bodywork off, raised on blocks beside a barn.

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