Ivalin Chobanov

PhD student @ University of Edinburgh

I am a first year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, member of the Robust Autonomy and Decisions Group and the Autonomous Agents Research Group. My research focuses on Reinforcement Learning and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. Topics of insterest include:

• Intrinsic motivation and behavior inducing mechanisms
• Reward-free learning and goal recognition
• Ad-hoc teamwork and agent modelling
• Learning task abstractions

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 NLP/LLMs.

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.