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Alistair Muldal is a leading researcher in artificial intelligence, specializing in reinforcement learning, continuous control, and the development of interactive, multimodal agents. His most impactful contribution is the creation of **dm_control**, a foundational software package that integrates the MuJoCo physics engine with Python libraries for procedural model manipulation and task authoring. This work, cited over 186 times, has become a standard benchmark for training and evaluating reinforcement learning agents in articulated-body simulations, enabling reproducible research in continuous control. Muldal’s research also advances the vision of robots that can interact naturally with humans. In his highly cited work on imitating interactive intelligence (43 citations) and creating multimodal agents (32 citations), he explores how agents can learn from human demonstrations and self-supervised signals to perceive the world, assist with physical tasks, and communicate through language. Additionally, his innovative study on learning awareness models (13 citations) demonstrates that agents can represent external objects solely by predicting their own proprioceptive data, offering a novel path toward self-aware artificial systems. Through these achievements, Muldal has significantly shaped modern approaches to building capable, interactive AI.