Jean-François Ton

Senior Research Scientist · ByteDance SEED

Hi there 👋 I’m Jean-François Ton (Jef), a Senior Research Scientist at ByteDance SEED in London.

I study how LLMs can learn, adapt, and cooperate. My work spans alignment, reward modelling, and multi-agent interaction. Currently, I am focusing on evolutionary search, active knowledge acquisition, and open-ended behaviour in LLM agents.

During my DPhil at the University of Oxford, I worked on kernel methods, causal inference, and uncertainty quantification under the mentorship of Prof. Yee Whye Teh and Prof. Dino Sejdinovic.

Before that, I completed the MSc in Applied Statistics at the University of Oxford and a BSc in Mathematics at Imperial College London.

London, United Kingdom