Ivalin Chobanov

PhD student @ University of Edinburgh

I am a first year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, member of the Centre for AI in Assistive Autonomy and MARBLE (formerly known as Autonomous Agents Research Group). I am supervised by Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Bonan Zhao and Ignacio Carlucho. My research focuses on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with the goal of developing methods that enable agents to exhibit complex behavior. In particular, I am interested in:

• Cooperation under sparse reward setting
• Learning task and environment abstractions to enhance learning and cooperation
• Using multi-agent world models
• Reward-free learning and goal recognition
• Ad-hoc teamwork and agent modelling

I am also broadly interested in the continual learning setting, designing models with long-term memory, out-of-distribution detection, zero(few)-shot learning. Outside of RL/MARL, I am interested in Generative AI, Robotics and World Models.

Before starting my PhD, I received a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics with Computer Science from the University of Southampton. I have also worked as a Software Developer at StoneX Financial Ltd. where I was part of the Metal's front-office team.