Igor Kuznetsov

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Hallo! I am an MSc student in the Computational Modeling and Simulation at TU Dresden specializing in Visual Computing.

My research interests are at the intersection of simulation, robotics, and computer graphics. My goal is to develop adaptive systems capable of perceiving, modelling, and interacting with the physical world in complex environments.

News

2026AUGUST
started summer research internship @ EPFL 🇨🇭
2025OCTOBER
started MSc in Computational Modeling and Simulation at TU Dresden
2025JULY
participating in EEML summer school in Sarajevo

Igor Kuznetsov

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Safer Reinforcement Learning by Going Off-policy: a Benchmark

Igor Kuznetsov

Paper • GitHub

AAMAS 2024
Guided Exploration in Reinforcement Learning via Monte Carlo Critic Optimization

Igor Kuznetsov

Paper • GitHub

IJCAI 2021
Solving Continuous Control with Episodic Memory

Igor Kuznetsov, Andrey Filchenkov

Paper • GitHub

Conditioning of Reinforcement Learning Agents and its Policy Regularization

Arip Asadulaev, Igor Kuznetsov, Gideon Stein, Andrey Filchenkov

Paper • IEEE Access

Igor Kuznetsov

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Experience

2026
Research Intern - EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland)

Project with an industrial partner on simulation and computer-vision-based prediction of fluid decantation @ IMOS laboratory

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

Reinforcement Learning for self-driving environment design

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

Reinforcement Learning for tendon-driven humanoid robots [robotics startup]

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

Reinforcement Learning for complex locomotion in simulation

Education

2025-2028
TU Dresden, Germany

MSc in Computational Modeling and Simulation ⇲

Research oriented degree on algorithmic and mathematical foundations of computational simulation. My specialisation track is in Visual Computing.

SIMULATION & MODELING ⊹ Basic Numerical Methods
⊹ Stochastic Modeling and Simulation
⊹ Spatiotemporal Modeling and Simulation
⊹ Particle Methods

ROBOTICS ⊹ Machine Learning for Robotics
⊹ Touch Sensing and Processing
⊹ Research Project: Offline RL for Touch Manipulation

VISUAL COMPUTING ⊹ Computer Graphics
⊹ Geometric Modeling and Animation
⊹ Physically Based Simulation
⊹ Data Vizualization

2017-2021
ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia

BSc in Software Engineering

Awards

2026
Scholarship, Summer School on AI and Games

Summer Schools 🎒

2026
AI and Games International Summer School

Leiden, The Netherlands

2025
Eastern Euorpean Machine Learning Summer School (EEML)

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Tools

Python, C++ / CUDA, Vim, Bash, Git

Languages

FLUENT
English
BEGINNER
German
NATIVE
Russian