Ilya Orson Sandoval

Ilya Orson Sandoval

PhD Candidate

Imperial College London

Hello there!

I am a PhD candidate at Imperial College London, exploring reinforcement learning and differentiable programming for process optimization and autonomous control. I hold a bachelor’s degree in theoretical and computational physics (check out my interactive kicked rotor simulator).

Previously I worked as a data scientist and an MLOps engineer, where I architected scalable infrastructure and developed predictive models for wholesale energy trading and supply chain optimization. More recently I worked as a ML research intern at The Alan Turing Institute, where I explored the use of graph attention networks as cyber defence agents using reinforcement learning.

I am interested broadly in applied machine learning research (lately attention, GNNs and RL) and its deployment to solve real-world problems.

Interests

  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Generative AI
  • Autonomous Cyber Defence
  • Graph Neural Networks
  • Differentiable Programming

Education

  • PhD in Engineering, 2020 - Ongoing

    Imperial College London

  • BSc (Hons) in Physics, 2017

    Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Contact

Happy to chat!