Víctor Mayoral-vilches
Chief Scientific Officer, Founder & Chairman At Alias Robotics
Álava, Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain
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Top SchoolVíctor Mayoral-vilches is a robotics and AI cybersecurity leader with 26 years of hands-on experience founding and scaling companies that bridge robot engineering and threat research. As Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Alias Robotics he pioneers AI-driven offensive and defensive cybersecurity for robots, authoring the Robot Immune System concept and steering product-grade research into deployable defenses. His career blends deep systems work—from ROS/ROS2 builds, Gazebo simulation, and Dockerized robotics stacks to FPGA/GPU acceleration for real-time compute—with executive roles at Xilinx, Acutronic, and multiple startups. A prolific open-source contributor, he has practical contributions to gym-gazebo, ROS 2 examples, and meta-ros build recipes that reflect his commitment to reproducible robotics tooling. He holds advanced doctoral work in robot cybersecurity and bio-robotics and combines academic rigor with repeated startup exits and industry partnerships. Less obvious: he pairs low-level build and intraprocess optimizations with strategic product creation, making him equally fluent in kernel-to-cloud robot architectures and go-to-market execution.
26 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS Exchange Student, MS Exchange Student at Hanyang UniversityPhD in BioRobotics BioRobotics, PhD in BioRobotics BioRobotics at Scuola Superiore Sant'AnnaDeep Learning Foundations Nanodegree Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning Foundations Nanodegree Artificial Intelligence at UdacityEntrepreneurship initiatives, Entrepreneurship initiatives at IE Business SchoolPhD Robot Cybersecurity, PhD Robot Cybersecurity at Universität KlagenfurtComputer Science, Computer Science at Universidad Rey Juan CarlosNorwegian University of Science and Technology
Spanish, English, Basque, Norwegian, Korean, Italian
Github Skills (26)
c-language10
gazebosim10
python10
openai-gym10
build-system10
cmake10
reinforcement-learning10
message-passing10
deep-learning10
rcpp10
cprogramming-language10
openembedded10
ros10
gazebo-simulator10
artificial-intelligence9
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
vmayoral/basic_reinforcement_learning
May 2016 - Jun 2018
An introductory series to Reinforcement Learning (RL) with comprehensive step-by-step tutorials.
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:95 commits, 1 PR, 135 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Víctor primarily contributed to tutorial code within a reinforcement learning project. Their work included implementing Q-learning algorithms, modifying existing code for exploration and insights, and integrating with OpenAI Gym environments, specifically for tasks like CartPole and MountainCar. Furthermore, they worked on diverse tutorials, from the basic Q-learning to implementing deep Q-learning, showing increasing complexity in their contributions.
reinforcement-learningdeep-reinforcement-learningaiintroductoryreinforcement
erlerobot/gym-gazebo
Jul 2016 - Mar 2019
Refer to https://github.com/AcutronicRobotics/gym-gazebo2 for the new version
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:144 commits, 11 PRs, 92 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Víctor focused on setting up and configuring the Gazebo simulation environment, including installation and dependency management for ROS and related robotics packages. They addressed installation issues, added necessary ROS dependencies, and worked on creating a Docker image for the project. Furthermore, the user updated the environment to use Python 3 and implemented some core environment files.
robotics-simulationignitionroboticsreinforcement-learninggymnasium
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