S. M. Ali Eslami is a staff research scientist at Google DeepMind working on problems related to artificial intelligence. Prior to that, he was a post-doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge. He did his PhD at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, during which he was also a visiting researcher in the Visual Geometry Group at the University of Oxford. His research is focused on getting computers to learn generative models of images that not only produce good samples but also good explanations for their observations.