Ilya Sandoval
AI Research Scientist at American Express
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIlya Sandoval is an AI research scientist and PhD graduate from Imperial College London with 11 years of experience applying reinforcement learning, graph neural networks and differentiable programming to real-world optimization and control problems. He combines deep academic work on neural ODEs and RL for cyber defense with hands-on industry delivery—architecting end-to-end MLOps on AWS, realtime forecasting for energy markets, and production-ready model serving. At The Alan Turing Institute he built topology-adaptive autonomous cyber-defense agents that generalize to unseen network structures, highlighting a knack for structural generalizability beyond standard benchmarks. Equally comfortable in research and production, he has driven measurable business impact (e.g., 10x contract query speedups, 20%+ route fuel savings) while pushing advanced ML methods toward deployment. Based in London, he focuses on bridging attention, GNNs and control theory into scalable systems that solve complex industrial problems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, ENGINEERING, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, ENGINEERING at Imperial College LondonUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (189)
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ode10
python10
gtk10
geography10
meter10
spatial10
openstreetmap10
overpass-api10
genetic-algorithm10
qt10
pandas10
osmnx10
root-finding10
symbolic-regression10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dpsanders/FisicaComputacional2017_2
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:43 commits, 1 PR, 39 pushes in 4 months
OptiMaL-PSE-Lab/REINFORCE-PSE
Sep 2018 - Jun 2022
Contributions:158 commits, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 10 months
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