Valerii Serpiva is a Ph.D. student at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, specializing in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Robotics. He earned his B.Sc. in Radiophysics from Tyumen State University in 2017 and his M.Sc. in Space and Engineering Systems with a focus on Robotics from Skoltech in 2021. His research focuses on Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Flight Planning, and Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, with his current thesis dedicated to Reinforcement Learning for racing drones in a multi-agent environment. He was a member of the winning team RESET at the EUROBOT 2021 championship, where he participated as a Mechanical Engineering Developer. He has substantial experience as a Robotics and UAV R&D Engineer at the Aramco Research Center in Moscow.