# Tuomas Haarnoja: founder, Eka Robotics

Canonical ID: `dbfe779e-ac85-42fa-a9f3-247323e42e94`

Co-founder of Eka Robotics. Former Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, where he worked on reinforcement learning. PhD from UC Berkeley (2018) on maximum entropy deep reinforcement learning, creator of the Soft Actor-Critic algorithm.

- **Nationality:** Finnish
- **Verification posture:** verified

## Current roles (1)

- [Eka Robotics](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/eka-robotics.md) Co-founder & CTO (secondary-verified)

## Former / Previously (1)

- [Google DeepMind](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/google-deepmind.md) Research Scientist (? to 2026-04-01) (secondary-verified)

## Sources (3)

1. https://www.linkedin.com/in/tuomas-haarnoja
2. https://x.com/haarnoja · 2026-04-01
3. https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2018/EECS-2018-176.html · 2018-12-01


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