Igor Kuznetsov

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Hallo! I am a master's student in the Computational Modeling and Simulation programme at TU Dresden, studying techniques of computational simulation.

My research interests lies in intersection of adaptive systems (reinforcement learning) and computational simulation (numerical methods, computer graphics, spatiotemporal simulation). Lately, I become interested in environmental design as a tool to improve generalisability and adaptivity both in-silico and embodied real-world agents.

News

Mar 2026
Joined NIMI group as a Research Assistant
Oct 2025
Started MSc in Computational Modeling and Simulation at TU Dresden
Jul 2025
Participating in EEML summer school in Sarajevo

Research

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I do research on intersection of adaptive systems and computational simulation. Ultimately, I am interested in agents capable of operating in unknown complex environments.

Adaptive Systems

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

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

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Research and Development Experience

2026-now
Nature Inspired Machine Intelligence group (Germany), Research Assistant

Spatial reasoning and memory for ARC-AGI-3

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

Reinforcement Learning for self-driving cars safety

2020-2023
Giant.AI (Campbell, CA, remote), Member of Technical Staff

Reinforcement Learning for humanoid robots [robotics startup]

2020
JetBrains Research (St. Petersburg, Russia), Intern

Reinforcement Learning for complex locomotion in simulation

Education

2025 - Present
TU Dresden, Germany

MSc in Computational Modeling and Simulation

Degree on advanced simulation methods. I took specialisation in computer graphics, simulation, and robotics.

Simulation
  ⊹ Basic Numeric Methods

Robotics
  ⊹ Machine Learning for Robotics
  ⊹ Touch Sensing and Processing

Visual Computing
  ⊹ Computer Graphics

SWE
  ⊹ Parallel Programming and HPC
  ⊹ Design Patterns and Frameworks

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