News
- [Apr 2026]: I presented my HRI paper at COMETE Workshop at UniTo!
- [Feb 2026]: I joined AIRlab as a visiting PhD student to work on assistive and helpful HRI in Torino!
- [Feb 2026]: MoIRA has been accepted to Neurocomputing!
- [Dec 2025]: EED Gym was accepted to HRI 2026!
- [Sep 2025]: Gave a talk and joined a panel at AI & BigData Day 2025.
- [Jul 2025]: Released two of our preprints: MoIRA and TD-MPC-Opt!
- [Jun 2025]: Gave a talk about my AAMAS work at RL Reading Club, University of Southampton!
- [May 2025]: Presented a poster on knowledge-based MBRL distillation at AAMAS 2025!
- [Oct 2023]: Started PhD in Computer Science at NaUKMA, advised by Dr. Nadiya Shvai.
Selected Publications
MoIRA: Modular Instruction Routing Architecture for Multi-Task Robotics
Neurocomputing, 2026
When Robots Say No: The Empathic Ethical Disobedience Benchmark
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2026
TD-MPC-Opt — Distillation & Quantization for Efficient Multi-Task Model-Based RL
Preprint (under review), 2025
Knowledge Transfer in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Agents for Efficient Multi-Task Learning
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2025
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.
AIRlabMuseum Tour-Guide Robot — Scene Mapping
3D scene mapping for a museum tour-guide robot.
AIRlab
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
- PC Member, ICTERI 2026
- Reviewer, ICSR 2026
- Reviewer, HRI 2026
- Reviewer, Journal of Field Robotics
Teaching
Senior Lecturer, NaUKMA
13 undergraduate theses supervised
Courses:
- MSc Reinforcement Learning (Spring '23-'25)
- MSc Machine Learning (Fall '22-'23; Spring '25-'26)
- MSc Image Analysis & Computer Vision (Spring '24-'26)
- MSc NLP Systems (Fall '24-'25)
- MSc Computer Vision (Fall '22-'25)
- BSc Machine Learning (Fall '24-'25)
- BSc Deep Learning for Computer Vision (Spring '24-'26)