~mikelma


Hi! My name is Mikel Malagón, mikelma online. I received a degree in Computer Science from the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU in 2022, and a master's degree in Computer Engineering and Artificial Intelligence the following year from the same university. Currently, I am a PhD student in the Intelligent Systems Group under the supervision of Josu Ceberio and Jose A. Lozano. My main research interests are (continual) reinforcement learning, open-ended learning, and deep learning. Although my research mainly focuses on ML, I'm also very interested in compilers, programming languages, and free software. Besides science and technology, I love rock climbing and playing the guitar.

Contact: mikel DOT malagon AT ehu DOT eus




✈️ Upcoming travel

I’ll be traveling to Canada 🇨🇦 from March to May as a visitor researcher in the RLAI lab at Univerisity of Alberta with Prof. Michael Bowling.

News

Sep 03, 2025
I'll be attending to ECAI in Bologna 🇮🇹 during late october.
Aug 01, 2025
Craftium has been selected for the best paper award at RLVG (RLC 2025) 🥳
Jun 29, 2025
Craftium has reached over 100 stars ⭐ on GitHub! Thanks to all stargazers!
Jun 25, 2025
May 23, 2025
I'll be attending the DLRL Summer School in Edmonton 🇨🇦 this July.
May 02, 2025
May 02, 2024
I'll be presenting "Self-Composing Policies for Scalable Continual Reinforcement Learning" as an oral presentation at ICML 2024 in Vienna! 🇦🇹

Selected publications

[ICML 2025]
(🏅 @ RLVG)
"Craftium: Bridging Flexibility and Efficiency for Rich 3D Single- and Multi-Agent Environments"
Mikel Malagón, Josu Ceberio, Jose A. Lozano
Published at ICML, also presented as an oral 🗣️ in the RLVG Workshop @ RLC 2025 [RLVG Best Paper Award 🏅]
[ICML 2024]
(Oral 🗣️)


Projects

A non-exhausistive list of my projects (excluding papers):

nan-audio
NaN (Not a Noise) is a real-time audio syntheis extension for GNU Guile designed for live coding.
NiGUI
Real-time EEG data visualization UI. This software is part of the NIT project @ Medialabs (Tabakalera). The project has been developed in collaboration with the Basque Center On Cognition Brain and Language .
radio-CARLOS
The amateur radio telescope of the astronomy group @ Medialabs (Tabakalera). Code here .
okta-lang
Compiled, imperative, and general-purpose programming language that aims to provide a simple platform to create efficient software. Main repo here .