Lucas Beyer 读Dr Engineering时换专业了？

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-beyer-7148709b/?originalSubdomain=ch

https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/854578/files/854578.pdf

Dissertation

https://archive.ph/JEUnS#selection-2455.0-2475.52 

One of Zuckerberg’s latest hires is a DeepMind alum and former OpenAI employee named Lucas Beyer. As a boy in Belgium, Beyer dreamed of making videogames and developed a fascination with AI. At college in Germany, he focused on mechanical engineering and dabbled in machine learning.

But when he applied for a job at Google as a software engineer more than a decade ago, he was rejected and decided to pursue a Ph.D. 

At first, he studied quantum physics and learned something useful. “Quantum physics is just not my thing,” Beyer said on the AI Epiphany show. He made computer vision and robotic perception his thing instead. When he hit the job market in 2018, he’d done two summer internships at Google and, this time, the company offered him a job. 

In fact, his talents were in such high demand that he received offers from all the industry’s top AI destinations—except one. 

“Meta,” he said on that show. “I never heard back.” 
 

I did chatGpT 

Yes — before transitioning into AI research, Lucas?Beyer initially pursued a PhD in quantum physics, but found it wasn’t the right fit for him. He later shifted focus to robotic perception and computer vision, completing his doctorate in that area instead  .

 

Here’s a timeline of his academic and research journey:

• Undergraduate & early grad school: Studied mechanical engineering (RWTH Aachen, Germany), then began a PhD in quantum physics.

• Mid-PhD pivot: Realized quantum physics wasn’t his passion—“Quantum physics is just not my thing”—so he redirected to computer vision and robotic perception  .

• Research career: Went on to become a staff research scientist at Google Brain / DeepMind in Zürich (2018–2024), before co-founding OpenAI’s Zurich office, and now joining Meta’s superintelligence lab  .

 

So yes, he did indeed change his doctoral subject—from quantum physics to computer science (perception/vision).