Scholar
Aleksandr I. Panov
Google Scholar ID: 6pijIbMAAAAJ
AIRI, MIPT
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,694
H-index
21
i10-index
54
Publications
20
Co-authors
10
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the Russian Academy of Sciences Medal for Young Scientists (2017)
- Led CDS team to 1st place in NeurIPS MineRL competition (2019)
- Led SkillFusion team to 1st place in CVPR Habitat competition (2023)
- Principal investigator on completed grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) and the Russian Science Foundation (RSF)
- Winner of the Yandex ML Prize 2024 in the Scientific Supervisors category
- Scientific consultant for Autorobotics team, winner of the Up Great “Level 5” 2024 competition for autonomous cargo transportation
- Editor of Cognitive Systems Research (Elsevier) since 2019
- Member of the Scientific Council of the Russian Association for Artificial Intelligence (RAAI) from 2015 to 2022
- Organized annual summer schools for RAAI and AIRI since 2017
- Organized the NeurIPS IGLU competition in 2021 and 2022
- Area Chair for AAAI 2026 (AIA track)
Education
- Graduated in 2005 from the physics and mathematics school at Novosibirsk State University (NSU)
- Earned a bachelor’s degree in physical-technical informatics from the Faculty of Physics at NSU
- Completed a master’s degree in applied mathematics and physics at MIPT, Department of Intelligent Systems (basic department of the Computing Center of RAS)
- Conducted doctoral dissertation at the Institute for System Analysis of RAS under the supervision of G.S. Osipov; thesis title: 'Research of methods, development of models, and algorithms for forming elements of the sign representation of the subject’s world model'
- Defended Dr.Sc. (Doctor of Sciences) thesis in Physics and Mathematics in November 2024; thesis title: 'Methods and algorithms of neurosymbolic learning and behavior planning for cognitive agents'
Background
- Head of Cognitive AI Systems Laboratory at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (AIRI), Moscow, Russia
- Head of the Center for Cognitive Modeling at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Dolgoprudny, Russia
- Research interests include transformer models and structured world models in reinforcement learning, applying language models for behavior planning (including robotics platforms), multi-agent planning and learning, and indoor visual navigation
- At AIRI, focuses on fundamental research on novel neurosymbolic architectures and LLM/VLM-based agents
- At MIPT, leads applied research and commissioned projects in reinforcement learning, robotics, and control systems
- Since 2019, has led the highly sought-after non-industrial Master's Program in Artificial Intelligence at MIPT’s Phystech School of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (FPMI)
