Hamza Merzić
Hamza Merzić
I’m a Staff Research Engineer at Google DeepMind and a doctoral researcher at UCL under John Shawe-Taylor. I work on AI systems and multimodal models that improve and adapt through interaction with the world.
Before AI, I worked on control theory and robotics. I did my Bachelor’s at the University of Sarajevo and Master’s at ETH Zürich, with an external thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. In between, I spent time at Rapyuta Robotics working on autonomous warehouse robots and end-to-end drone autonomy.
I founded ANNT to help connect Bosnian science and tech talent worldwide. Last year I organised EEML 2025 in Sarajevo, with 350 participants from 50 countries, the largest in-person edition so far (the wrap-up post has the full story).
I also love building tools, especially educational ones. A handful of them, both old robotics tools and newer experiments, live on the projects page.