About Me

My name is Alexey 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. I am also currently a research intern at Five AI, working on VLAs and autonomous driving.

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

My research focuses on building adaptive agents that can safely navigate complex environments to achieve desired outcomes. I am particularly interested in model-based reinforcement learning, VLAs, and foundation models.

Contact

If you wish to collaborate or simply contact me, drop me an email at alexey.zakharov@cs.ox.ac.uk.

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