Summary
Ivan Kapelyukh is a robotics research engineer and PhD candidate at Imperial College London with eight years of software and research experience spanning robot learning, computer vision, and scalable cloud systems. He combines academic rigor in deep learning and robot learning with hands-on engineering at organizations like Google DeepMind and Citadel, shipping research-driven systems in production-like environments. His background includes full‑stack development, security-aware web tooling, and cloud CI/CD from internships at J.P. Morgan, Netcraft and Citadel, giving him a pragmatic systems view alongside research expertise. Ivan focuses on autonomous robot learning that minimizes human supervision, and has experience working on foundation-model-driven robot learning at RAI Institute. He has a track record of rapid prototyping and team leadership dating back to leading an iOS education app and winning Facebook’s London hackathon. Based in London, he brings a blend of experimental research, software craftsmanship and product-minded system design to robotics challenges.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School of Dundee
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robot Learning & Computer Vision, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robot Learning & Computer Vision at Imperial College London
English, Ukrainian