Igor Kuznetsov

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Hallo! I am a MSc student in the Computational Modeling and Simulation at TU Dresden with specialization in Visual Computing.

My research interests are broadly at the intersection of adaptive systems, simulation, and computer graphics. By studying both aspects of simulation methods and decision-making algorithms, my ultimate goal is to build systems that perceive, model, and interact robustly with the physical world.

igor.kuznetsov [at] mailbox.tu-dresden.de
@schatty.bsky.social

News

2026August
Started research internship in IMOS laboratory @ EPFL 🇨🇭
2026March
Joined NIMI laboratory as a Research Assistant
2025October
Started MSc in Computational Modeling and Simulation at TU Dresden
2025July
Participating in EEML summer school in Sarajevo

Research

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Safer Reinforcement Learning by Going Off-policy: a Benchmark

Igor Kuznetsov

ICML 2024, NextGenAISafety Workshop

PaperGitHub

Guided Exploration in Reinforcement Learning via Monte Carlo Critic Optimization

Igor Kuznetsov

AAMAS 2024

PaperGitHub

Solving Continuous Control with Episodic Memory

Igor Kuznetsov, Andrey Filchenkov

IJCAI 2021

PaperGitHub

Conditioning of Reinforcement Learning Agents and its Policy Regularization Application

Arip Asadulaev, Igor Kuznetsov, Gideon Stein, Andrey Filchenkov

ICML 2020, Workshop

PaperIEEE Access

Resume

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Research and Development Experience

2026
Summer Research Intern - IMOS laboratory, EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland)

Project at the intersection of simulation, computer vision, and applied machine learning, for an industrial fluid decantation use case

2026-now
Research Assistant - NIMI laboratory (Dresden, Germany)

Research on nature-inspired world modelling, memory, and planning

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

Reinforcement Learning for self-driving environmental design

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

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

2020
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. I took specialisation in visual computing and robotics.

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 Computer Science and Computing Hardware

Awards

2026
Scholarship, Summer School on AI and Games

Summer Schools 🎒

2026
AI and Games International Summer School

Leiden, The Netherlands [link]

2025
Eastern Euorpean Machine Learning Summer School (EEML)

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina [link]

Tools

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

Languages

Fluent
English
Beginner
German
Native
Russian