Nikolay Nikolov

Doctoral Student

Email: [email protected]

About me:

I am Niko, a PhD student in Computer Vision and Robotics, working with Prof. Luc Van Gool and Dr. Danda Pani Paudel. My work is at the intersection of Robotics, World Modeling and Reinforcement Learning. I am particularly interested in developing end-to-end foundational models for Robotics.

Previously, I was part of the core research team at Wayve, an autonomous driving company. There, I developed one of the first offline Reinforcement Learning models applied to autonomous driving in the real world. With my team we proved that end-to-end AI can drive in complex urban environments such as central London, which at the time was considered impossible by the entire industry.

Education

– **ETH Zurich, **Switzerland, Sep 2017 – Sep 2018

M.Eng. Exchange

– **Imperial College London, **United Kingdom, Oct 2014 – Sep 2018

M.Eng. Electronic and Information Engineering (First Class Honors)

Professional Experience

Wayve, London, UK, Dec 2018 – Dec 2022

Applied Scientist