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.

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 in the food industry. 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.

My interests span emerging machine learning approaches for solving complex real-world challenges.

Interests

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

Education

  • PhD in Engineering, 2020 - 2025

    Imperial College London

  • BSc (Hons) in Physics, 2017

    Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Contact

Happy to chat!