Alex Schutz

I am a PhD student in the Goal-Oriented Long-Lived Systems (GOALS) group at the Oxford Robotics Institute. I joined the group in 2023, being supervised by Nick Hawes and Bruno Lacerda.

My research covers multi-agent planning under uncertainty, covering topics like:

• Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
• Graph Reinforcement Learning
• POMDP Algorithms
• Neural Algorithmic Reasoning

In 2023, I was awarded a prestigious scholarship from the John Monash Foundation, supporting outstanding Australians pursuing postgraduate studies overseas.

Before joining the ORI, I worked as a Rapid Prototyping Engineer at Myriota, developing algorithms for ultra low-energy direct-to-orbit satellite communications. Prior to that, I earned a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronics) and a Bachelor of Maths and Computer Science from the University of Adelaide, graduating as Valedictorian.

I am part of the leadership team for Robotics Inclusive - please get in contact if you’d like to be involved in making the robotics community accessible to all.