About me

Welcome! My name is Borja, I am a last-year PhD student in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London under the supervision of Dr. Francesco Belardinelli and Prof. Murray Shanahan. I am passionate about artificial intelligence (AI) and my interests center around the topic of adaptability in cognitive processes and its interplay with embodiment, language and memory. I am currently working as a Research Scientist intern at Sony AI on the topic of open-ended and deep reinforcement learning (DRL).

I also love to collaborate with others and disseminate science, for that reason I founded ICARL, which I invite you to follow if you want to learn about DRL! If you want to know more about me and my work, feel free to ping me or browse other sections of this website. You can also have a look at my CV (last update 06/2023).

Research

  • B. G. Leon, M. Shanahan, F. Belardinelli. In a Nutshell, the Human Asked for This: Latent Goals for Following Temporal Specifications. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2022 (pdf).

  • P. He, B. G. Leon, F. Belardinelli. Do Androids Dream of Electric Fences? Safety-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Latent Shielding. AAAI's Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety, 2022 (best paper award)(pdf).

  • F. Belardinelli, B. G. Leon+, V. Malvone. Enabling Markovian Representations under Imperfect Information. International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), 2022 (oral, authors in alphabetic order, + corresponding author) (pdf).

  • B. G. Leon, M. Shanahan, F. Belardinelli. Relational Deep Reinforcement Learning and Latent Goals for Following Instructions in Temporal Logic. ICML workshop on Uncertainty & Robustness in Deep Learning, 2021 (pdf).

  • S. Zhu, F. Belardinelli, B. G. Leon. Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning to learn Temporal Specifications. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) companion proceedings, 2021 (pdf).

  • P. El Mqirmi, F. Belardinelli, B. G. Leon. An Abstraction-based Method to Verify Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement-Learning Behaviours. International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2021 (pdf).

  • B. G. Leon, M. Shanahan, F. Belardinelli. Systematic Generalisation through Task Temporal Logic and Deep Reinforcement Learning. Mediterranenan Machine Learning Summer School 2021 poster.

  • B. G. Leon, F. Belardinelli. Extended Markov Games to Learn Multiple Tasks in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2020 (pdf).

  • F. Lattari*, B. G. Leon*, F. Assaro, A. Rucci, C. Prati, M. Matteucci . Deep Learning for SAR Image Despeckling. Remote Sensing, 11(13), 1532. (2019) pdf (* same contribution).

  • B. G. Leon, F. Lattari, F. Assaro, A. Rucci, C. Prati, M. Matteucci . Use of deep learning for speckle reduction in SAR images. European Space Agency’s Living Planet Symposium, 2019 poster.

  • Design of a Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Autonomous Vehicles. Politecnico di Milano, 2018 Master Thesis.

Outreach

  • Imperial College Autonomous Reasoning and Learning (ICARL). Founder and main organiser, Imperial College London, 2022-present
  • Towards Artificial Intelligence with “Common Sense”. Speaker, Nova Knowledge, 2023
  • Formal Methods in Artificial Intelligence. Organising committee, Imperial College London, 2021, Virtual
  • Designing the Brain of your Autonomous Car. Speaker, International University of Valencia, 2021, Virtual, Slides
  • Systematic Generalisation through Task Temporal Logic and Deep Reinforcement Learning. Speaker, Mad_RL Meetup, From Space Rockets to next-gen DRL, 2020, Virtual, Slides
  • Model-based RL. Speaker, Mad_RL Meetup, Virtual Session 1, 2020, Digital, Slides
  • Inverse Reinforcement Learning: Guess riddle, what drives me?. Speaker, Machine Learning Day with SpainML and Dev Circle at Zone from Facebook, 2019, Madrid, Slides and Video
  • Google I/O Extended. Organiser, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, 2017, Madrid
  • Machine Learning in a Big Data project. Speaker, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, 2017, Madrid
  • Deep Dive into TensorFlow #5. Organising Comittee, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, 2017, Madrid
  • Artificial Intelligence Days. Organiser, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, 2017, Madrid

Contact

Borja González León
Room 502, Department of Computing
Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK
borjagleon(at)imperial(dot)ac(dot)uk

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