--- title: "Mark Towers — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Mark Towers, University of Southampton: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-towers/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-towers/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Mark Towers # Mark Towers Mark Towers has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2024; often with [Jordan Terry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jordan-terry/), [Lucas Willems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lucas-willems/), [Markus Krimmel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/markus-krimmel/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5108585735) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5108585735) · [2 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5108585735) · [21 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5108585735&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-towers/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 70 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-towers/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7665](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/77/#star-7665) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Mark+Towers) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Mark+Towers) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Mark+Towers) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Mark+Towers) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Southampton** Southampton · United Kingdom 2023–2025 · 6 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southampton/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 2 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-towers/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-towers/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Gymnasium: A Standard Interface for Reinforcement Learning Environments](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/towers-2024-gymnasium-standard-interface-reinforcement-learning/)** *(2024 · 113 citations)* Progress in reinforcement learning has been slowed by inconsistent environment and algorithm implementations, which makes results hard to compare and reuse. 2. **[Minigrid & Miniworld: Modular & Customizable Reinforcement Learning Environments for Goal-Oriented Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chevalier-boisvert-2023-minigrid-miniworld-modular-customizable-reinforcement/)** *(2023 · 25 citations)* Popular RL benchmark suites such as Gym and dm_control mostly test motor control or visual perception. They are poorly suited to studying goal-directed reasoning or instruction following, and adding new objectives to them is hard. The authors present Minigrid, a collection of 2D GridWorld tasks, and Miniworld, a set… ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jordan Terry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jordan-terry/) ×2 - [Lucas Willems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lucas-willems/) - [Markus Krimmel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/markus-krimmel/) - [Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maxime-chevalier-boisvert/) - [Pablo Samuel Castro](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pablo-samuel-castro/) - [Salem Lahlou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salem-lahlou/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 70 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [9 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-towers/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026