About Me
I’m Khashayar -- a Principal AI Engineer at Inframatic Engineering, where I design and deploy adaptive AI systems for automated compliance in UK. My focus is on learning agents that operate and adapt in real time within dynamic, non-stationary environments -- bridging advanced research in online learning, reinforcement learning, continual learning, and meta-learning with scalable, production-ready systems.
Alongside industry, I’m in the final year of a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire. My research centres on NOVA, a cognitive framework for continual learning, novelty detection, and reinforcement learning in human–robot teaming. The work has been validated on the ARI humanoid platform at the UH Robot House and spans bio-inspired gaze control (RLBAM), confidence-aware perception (CAPA-AI), and activity recognition (HAR-Agent), with publications in venues including IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems.
I also supervise BSc and MSc students at the University of Hertfordshire on AI and robotics projects -- a role I enjoy because it keeps me close to the first-principles questions that get lost when you spend too long shipping. The rhythm I care about most is the one between research and engineering: translating ideas into systems that hold up under production load, and letting real-world constraints shape the questions worth pursuing in the lab.
My technical interests sit across continual learning, agent architectures, MCP and multi-agent systems, MLOps, and the kind of MLE work that turns a paper into something reliable. I’ve been writing Python for over a decade, and I’m most at home at the seam where theory meets what actually ships.
If you’d like to get in touch about research collaboration, speaking, or anything at the intersection of adaptive AI and real-world systems -- say hello.
Education
Thesis: Robot Adaptation to Unseen Environments: On-the-Fly Learning Using Novelty Detection and RL
Supervisors: Dr. Abolfazl Zaraki, Prof. Farshid Amirabdollahian, and Dr. Frank Foerster
Funded PhD Studentship focusing on agentic AI and continual learning for adaptive robotics
Thesis: Predicting Next Customer Purchases with Recommender Systems
Distinction in machine learning and data science applications
First Class Honours with specialisation in robotics and embedded systems
Member of MRL Humanoid Kid Size and MRL At-Home Robot teams -- contributing to motion control, vision, world modeling, localization, AI, and embedded system design for RoboCup competitions
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Contact
If you're interested in research collaboration, consulting, or simply want to connect, please reach out!
Based in: Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Available for: Research collaborations, consulting, speaking engagements, and academic partnerships