About Me

My name is Alex Zakharov, and I am a PhD student at the Whiteson Research Lab at the University of Oxford, where I am supervised by Prof Shimon Whiteson.

Previously, I worked as a research associate at Huawei 2012 Laboratories in London, focusing 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. Prior to Imperial College, I completed a Bachelor's degree at University College London, where I was supervised by Prof. Mark Miodownik.

Research Interests

I am interested in building adaptive agents that can safely navigate complex environments to achieve desired outcomes. To this end, I am focused 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 modeling) and model-based agents with Bayesian planning objectives.

Contact

If you wish to collaborate or simply contact me, drop me an email at brandelt4@gmail.com.

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