Ilija Bogunovic

Ilija Bogunovic is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London (UCL). His research focuses on robust AI, algorithmic decision-making, and reinforcement learning, with applications to large language models, safe RL, and human-AI interaction. He leads a team of PhD students and collaborates with institutions like UKAEA and Google DeepMind. His work has been recognized through the Google Research Scholar Program Award and EPSRC New Investigator Award for robust decision-making and RL.

Research interests include non-stationary preference optimization, adversarial robustness in decision transformers, and group-robust preference alignment. He advises over a dozen PhD students and actively contributes to conferences like NeurIPS, ICML, and AISTATS. His methods address challenges in distribution shifts, class imbalance, and safe multi-agent systems.

Key achievements include developing algorithms like REDUCR for robust data downsampling and AE-LSVI for active reinforcement learning. He organizes reading groups on adaptive experimental design and co-organized NeurIPS workshops on drug discovery and AI alignment.