Rokas Bendikas
Visiting lecturer at ISM, PhD Candidate of Philosophy in Foundational AI at University College in London, CTO and Co-founder of InHive in London, Visiting Scholar at University of California San Diego
rokben@ism.ltORCIDRokas is currently pursuing a PhD in Foundational AI at University College London under the supervision of Prof. Danail Stoyanov, Dr. Francisco Vasconcelos, and Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas. He also holds a visiting scholar position at the University of California, San Diego, where his research is supervised by Prof. Hao Su. His work primarily investigates latent 3D world models and their integration into visuomotor robot control problems. Rokas is dedicated to empowering robots with the ability to learn intelligent behaviours through the perception and interpretation of their 3D surroundings.
During his Master’s studies, Rokas completed his thesis at the Dyson Robotics Lab, under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Davison. His project focused on developing imagination-augmented DQN algorithms, enabling robots to learn optimal manipulation strategies in dynamic environments by “imagining” future environment states.
In his undergraduate years in Biomedical Engineering at King’s College London, Rokas contributed as a research assistant in the Cardio-Electro Magnetic Research Group (CEMRG). The group, led by Dr. Caroline Roney and Prof. Steven Niederer, researches the mechanisms of atrial fibrillation using Deep Learning and Computational Modelling.
Research areas
- Robot Control
- Reinforcement Learning
- 3D Scene Understanding
Teaching areas
- Reinforcement Learning
- Robotic Control Theory and Systems