Alexey Zakharov
Alexey Zakharov
Department of Computer Science,
Robert Hooke Building
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Biography
My name is Alex, and I am a DPhil (PhD) student at the Whiteson Research Lab, where I am supervised by Prof Shimon Whiteson.
I am interested in building adaptive agents that can safely navigate complex environments to achieve desired outcomes. To this end, I am focussed on the framework of Bayesian model-based reinforcement learning. I believe it provides the natural basis for building robust and adaptive artificial agents that can deal with stochastic and partially-observable environments. More specifically, my research has been dedicated to creating better world models (latent-variable generative modelling) and model-based agents with Bayesian planning objectives.
Previously, I worked as a research associate at Huawei 2012 Laboratories in London, focussing on Bayesian model-based RL, representation learning, and generative models. I hold a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from Imperial College London, where I was supervised by Dr. Zafeirios Fountas and Dr. Matthew Crosby.
If you have any questions, or want to reach out, please contact me at my email. Check out my website.