Igor Kuznetsov

Hallo! I am a master's student in Computational Modeling and Simulation programme at TU Dresden.

Broadly, I am interested in adaptive AI systems capable of operating robustly in a lifelong open-ended manner, embodied in the real-world or in silico. Starting as a Reinforcement Learning engineer, I am now focusing on simulation aspects of intelligence, specifically on applications of differentiable simulation in AI.

I am a slow thinker and in my free time enjoy listening to Japanese ambient and wandering around new cities taking photos.

igorkuznetsov14 [at] gmail [dot] com

Safer Reinforcement Learning by Going Off-policy: a Benchmark

Igor Kuznetsov

NextGenAISafety Workshop @ ICML 2024

Paper | GitHub

Guided Exploration in Reinforcement Learning via Monte Carlo Critic Optimization

Igor Kuznetsov

AAMAS 2024 / DARL Workshop @ ICML 2022

Paper | GitHub

Solving Continuous Control with Episodic Memory

Igor Kuznetsov, Andrey Filchenkov

IJCAI 2021

Paper | GitHub

Conditioning of Reinforcement Learning Agents and its Policy Regularization Application

Arip Asadulaev, Igor Kuznetsov, Gideon Stein, Andrey Filchenkov

BIG Workshop @ ICML 2020

Paper | IEEE Access

Research and Development Experience

2023-2025
Oxa (Oxford, UK), Research Engineer

Reinforcement Learning for AV scenarios generation in simulation

2020-2023
Giant.AI [robotics start-up] (Campbell, CA) Machine Learning Engineer

Reinforcement Learning and Imitation Learning for humanoid robots

2020
JetBrains Research (St. Petersburg, Russia) Intern

Reinforcement Learning research (Autonomous Agents Group)

2017-2019
Insilico Medicine (St. Petersburg, Russia), Data Scientist

Machine Learning for Small Molecules Property Prediction

Education

2025 - Present
TU Dresden, Germany

MSc in Computational Modeling and Simulation (AI Track)

Courses:
  ⊹ Numeric Methods
  ⊹ Computer Vision
  ⊹ Touch Sensing and Processing
  ⊹ Palallel Programming and HPC
  ⊹ Scientific Software Engineering
  ⊹ Philosophy of Science

2017 - 2021
ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia

BSc in Computer Science and Computing Hardware

Summer Schools 🎒

2025

Tools

Python, C++, Vim, Git

Languages

Fluent
English
Beginner
German
Native
Russian