Victor is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Oxford Robotics Institute. His primary project investigates mission planning techniques for underwater glider robots in collaboration with the National Oceanography Centre.
His primary goal is the development of artificial intelligence techniques for solving challenging decision-making problems effectively. His research interests span reinforcement learning and planning, combinatorial optimization, network science, graph neural networks, game theory, and multi-agent systems. He also investigates applications of such techniques in areas as diverse as robotics, operations research, computer systems, and causal inference.
Victor was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Machine Learning in the Autonomous Systems group at the Department of Computer Science, University College London (UCL). His PhD in Computer Science, awarded in May 2023 from UCL, was sponsored by The Alan Turing Institute through its doctoral programme and included a research internship at Spotify. Prior to this, he attended University of Birmingham between 2013 and 2018, obtaining an MSci in Computer Science with an Industrial Year. During this time, he worked as a software engineer in the financial services industry.
To find out more, visit https://victor.darvariu.me.
