Owen Oertell — Resume

I work on agents, reinforcement learning, and retrieval at Databricks Mosaic Research.

My publications are listed on the homepage.

Experience

Databricks Mosaic Research

Aug 2025 – Present

Research Scientist New York, NY

Reinforcement learning for deep-research and knowledge agents.

NVIDIA

Aug – Dec 2024; Jun – Aug 2025

Research Intern Santa Clara, CA

Reinforcement learning and optimization for GPU compilers.

DRW

Jun – Aug 2024

Software Engineering Intern Chicago, IL

Commodities desk.

Education

Cornell University

B.S. in Computer Science, summa cum laude.

2026 Cornell Computer Science Prize for Academic Excellence, awarded to one graduating CS major.

Teaching

CS 4789
Reinforcement Learning Spring 2024; Spring 2025 (Head TA)
CS 4820
Analysis of Algorithms Spring 2023; Fall 2023

Service

Reviewer for ICLR (2025, 2026; Notable Reviewer, 2025), NeurIPS (2025), RLC (2025), COLM (2025), and ACL ARR (2025).

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