Oleg Sautenkov

About Me

I am a second-year PhD student in Robotics at Skoltech, specializing in LLM/VLM agents, UAV mission planning, and Computer Vision. My work integrates AI and robotics to solve complex challenges as TSP and path-planning through the new architectures.
Now I'm an Invited Researcher at AAE Hong Kong Poly. DM to grab a coffee and discuss the robotics projects.

Education

• Invited Researcher, Hong Kong PolyU, 2025–Present
• PhD in Information Systems, Skoltech, 2023–Present
• MSc in Engineering Systems, Skoltech, 2019–2022
• BSc in Aviation Systems, Moscow Aviation Institute, 2015–2019
• Visiting Student, MIT CSAIL, 2022

Experience

• Invited Researcher, Hong Kong PolyU, 2025–Present
• Research Assistant, Skoltech, 2022–2023
• Software Intern, Native Robotics, 2021
• Mechanical Engineer, SmirnovDesign, 2019–2020

GenAI Related Papers

Other papers can be found in my Full CV

• UAV-VLA: Vision-Language-Action System for Large Scale Aerial Mission Generation.
  O. Sautenkov, Y. Yaqoot, A. Lykov, M. A. Mustafa, G. Tadevosyan, A. Akhmetkazy, M. Altamirano Cabrera, M. Martynov, S. Karaf, and D. Tsetserukou, in Proc. ACM/IEEE Int. Conf. on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2025), Melbourne, Australia, March 4–6, 2025, in print.
  (Core2023 A, Scopus, WoS, H-index (SJR)=70)
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05014
  https://github.com/sautenich/uav-vla
  

Contact

Email: oleg.sautenkov[at]skoltech.ru

GitHub: github.com/Sautenich

Google Scholar: scholar.google.com/OlegSautenkov