Portrait of Dmytro Kuzmenko

Dmytro Kuzmenko

Head of AI @ OnlyMonster·PhD Candidate @ NaUKMA·Visiting PhD @ AIRlab, UniTo

I am a researcher working in robotics, machine learning, and human-robot interaction, with a focus on efficient and reliable intelligent systems. I have experience conducting research and supervising student work, alongside developing AI systems in applied settings.

My work bridges methodological research and real-world implementation, with an emphasis on reinforcement learning and physical intelligence. I am actively engaged in international collaboration and regularly present my work at conferences. In addition to my research, I am committed to teaching, mentoring, and fostering a collaborative research environment.

If you want to reach out, don't hesitate to send me an email.

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Selected Publications

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MoIRA: Modular Instruction Routing Architecture for Multi-Task Robotics
D. Kuzmenko, N. Shvai
Neurocomputing, 2026
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When Robots Say No: The Empathic Ethical Disobedience Benchmark
D. Kuzmenko, N. Shvai
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2026
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TD-MPC-Opt — Distillation & Quantization for Efficient Multi-Task Model-Based RL
D. Kuzmenko, N. Shvai
Preprint (under review), 2025
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Knowledge Transfer in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Agents for Efficient Multi-Task Learning
D. Kuzmenko, N. Shvai
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2025
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Projects

A few things I'm involved with at AIRlab, UniTo.

This/That: Spatial Reference Resolution for VLMs

How well VLMs and 3D pipelines resolve "this"/"that" from a person's point of view.

Contributor · Ongoing

AIRlab
Museum Tour-Guide Robot — Scene Mapping

3D scene mapping for a museum tour-guide robot.

Advisor · Completed

AIRlab
Reachy Mini robot on a table at AIRlab, UniTo

Also: I brought a Reachy Mini to AIRlab — it's since become something of an unofficial mascot. It fed into a labmate's dissertation work on empathy, kicked off a new Python course for non-technical master's students, and my first thesis student here is now using it to teach English to kids.

Academic Service

Teaching

Senior Lecturer, NaUKMA
13 undergraduate theses supervised

Courses: