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Basics

Name Đorđe Božić
Label PhD Student
Email db2246@bath.ac.uk
Phone +44 7534 260015
Url https://bozic-djordje.github.io
Summary Reinforcement learning researcher pursuing a PhD at the University of Bath under the supervision of professor Özgür Şimşek.

Education

  • 2024 -

    Bath, UK

    PhD
    Department of Computer Science, University of Bath
    Accountable, Responsible, and Transparent AI
  • 2023 - 2024

    Bath, UK

    MSc
    Department of Computer Science, University of Bath
    Accountable, Responsible, and Transparent AI
    • Bayesian Machine Learning
    • Robotics Software
    • AI as a Social and Political Practice
  • 2019 - 2021

    Belgrade, Serbia

    MSc
    School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade
    Applied Mathematics
    • Machine Learning
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Probability and Statistics
  • 2013 - 2019

    Belgrade, Serbia

    BSc
    School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade
    Computer Engineering and Informatics
    • Linear Algebra
    • Calculus
    • Numerical and Discrete Mathematics
    • Probability and Statistics
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Operating Systems
    • Compilers
    • Object-Oriented Programming
    • Concurrent and Distributive Programming
    • Software Design
    • Cryptography

Work

  • 2023 - 2023
    Research Engineer
    Incode
    Developed machine learning models that prevented facial spoofing and enabled user verification.
    • image classification
    • outlier detection
    • facial spoofing
    • face liveness
    • computer vision
  • 2021 - 2023
    Research Scientist
    Everseen
    Developed computer vision machine learning models that verified the self-checkout process in retail stores.
    • image classification
    • object detection
    • expert systems
    • computer vision
  • 2018 - 2019
    Research Engineer
    Retail Intelligence LLC
    Developed computer vision machine learning models that verified the checkout process in retail stores.
    • image classification
    • object detection
    • action recognition
    • pose estimation
    • computer vision

Volunteer

  • 2021 -
    Unit Convenor
    Practical Seminar in Machine Learning
    Unit convenor for Reinforcement Learning, with occasional involvement in summer school organization.

Publications

  • 2021.11.23
    Intrinsically motivated option learning: a comparative study of recent methods
    IEEE
    Options represent a framework for reasoning across multiple time scales in reinforcement learning (RL). With the recent active interest in the unsupervised learning paradigm in the RL research community, the option framework was adapted to utilize the concept of empowerment, which corresponds to the amount of influence the agent has on the environment and it's ability to perceive this influence, and which can be optimized without any supervision provided by the environment's reward structure. Many recent papers modify this concept in various ways achieving commendable results. Through these various modifications, however, the initial context of empowerment is often lost. In this work we offer a comparative study of such papers through the lens of the original empowerment principle.

Interests

Research
Reinforcement Learning
Machine Learning
Hierarchical RL
Intrinsic Motivation
Symbol Grounding
Learning Representations
Continual Learning
Personal
Reading
Sci-Fi
Brutalism
Film
Board Games
Running
Fencing

Skills

Programming
Python
PyTorch
TensorFlow 2
OpenCV
C++
Software Design
UML

Languages

Serbian
Native speaker
English
Fluent
Russian
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