Overview

Ilias is a PhD student at the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Machine Intelligence for Nano-Electronic Devices and Systems (MINDS) of the University of Southampton. He holds a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Democritus University of Thrace (2018) and an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Southampton (2020). His research is on Safe Reinforcement Learning, focusing on methods that use a human-in-the-loop. Ilias’s goal is to build provably safe reinforcement learning agents for safety-critical real-world systems for which plain reinforcement learning would fail. A number of robotic tasks that can benefit from this research.

Education

• MSc in Artificial Intelligence, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

• MEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Publication

Kazantzidis, Ilias, Timothy J Norman, Yali Du, and Christopher T Freeman (2022). “How to Train Your Agent: Active Learning from Human Preferences and Justifications in Safety-critical Environments”. In: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.