Igor Kuznetsov

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Hallo! I am a master's student in the Computational Modeling and Simulation programme at TU Dresden, focusing on aspects of differentiable simulation for AI.

Broadly, I am interested in adaptive AI systems capable of operating robustly in a open-ended manner, in silico or embodied in the real-world. To progress in this direction, I study questions at intersection of reinforcement learning, simulation, and cognitive modeling.

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

Research

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

Research and Development Experience

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

  ⊹ Numeric Methods
  ⊹ Palallel Programming and HPC
  ⊹ Touch Sensing and Processing
  ⊹ Design Patterns and Frameworks
  ⊹ Good Scientific Practice

2017 - 2021
ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia

BSc in Computer Science and Computing Hardware

Summer Schools 🎒

2025
Eastern Euorpean Machine Learning Summer School (EEML)

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Tools

Python, C++, Vim, Git

Languages

Fluent
English
Beginner
German
Native
Russian

Blog