Ishan Durugkar serves as a Senior Research Scientist on Sony AI's Game AI team. In this role, he trains, researches, and deploys reinforcement learning (RL) agents within AAA video games, operating under real-time, human-in-the-loop constraints. A notable success of his team is the deployment of GT Sophy, an RL agent now integrated into the Gran Turismo PS5 game.

Durugkar's research interests encompass deep, multi-agent, imitation, goal-conditioned, and unsupervised reinforcement learning.