Summary
Mart Kartašev is a PhD student and reinforcement learning researcher focused on reliable robot autonomy, combining modular planning, behavior trees and hierarchical deep RL to enable autonomous decision-making for underwater vehicles. With eight years of industry experience at CGI as a software architect and team lead, he bridges research and production by applying cloud-native, microservices and DevOps practices alongside simulation-to-reality workflows using Unity, MuJoCo and MLAgents. He brings practical systems experience across Java, Go, Python and C#, and has led teams building resilient distributed systems in energy and enterprise domains. Based in Greater Stockholm, he contributes to the Swedish Maritime Robotics Centre project (SMaRC), uniquely positioning him at the intersection of applied robotics research and scalable software engineering.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Systems at TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology
High School, High School at Tallinna Kristiine Gümnaasium
English, Estonian