diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7ef6eafb4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+*.dockerfile
+*Dockerfile
+.devcontainer
+.vscode
+.venv
+__pycache__/
+
+env/
+prerequisites/
+storm/
+stormpy/
+experiments/
+
+#Git files
+.git
+.github
+.gitignore
+#The remainder is based on .gitignore
+**/*.so
+**/*.py[cod]
+lib/**/_config.py
+**/.eggs/
+**/*.egg-info/
+**/build/
+**/dist/
+**/.idea/
+**/__pycache__/
+**/_build/
+**/.pytest_cache/
+**/.idea/
+**/cmake-build-debug/
+
+**/.DS_Store
diff --git a/.github/workflows/buildtest.yml b/.github/workflows/buildtest.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e428c5ad1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/buildtest.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+name: Build Test
+# Builds and tests stormpy with different versions of Storm
+# also deploys images to Dockerhub
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+  schedule:
+    # run weekly
+    - cron: '0 10 * * 3'
+  # needed to trigger the workflow manually
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  pull_request:
+
+env:
+  GIT_URL: "${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}.git"
+  BRANCH: "${{ github.ref }}"
+  # GitHub runners currently have two cores
+  NR_JOBS: "2"
+
+jobs:
+  deploytemp:
+    name: Test and Deploy on latest using specific Storm commit (${{ matrix.buildType.name }})
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        buildType:
+          - {name: "Release", imageName : "randriu/paynt", dockerTag: "temp", buildArgs: "BUILD_TYPE=Release", setupArgs: "", stormCommit : "dc7960b8f0222793b591f3d6489e2f6c7da1278f"}
+      fail-fast: false
+    steps:
+      - name: Git clone
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Build paynt from Dockerfile
+        run: docker build -t ${{ matrix.buildType.imageName }}:${{ matrix.buildType.dockerTag }} . -f paynt-specific-storm.dockerfile --build-arg storm_sha=${{ matrix.buildType.stormCommit }} --build-arg build_type=${{ matrix.buildType.buildArgs }} --build-arg setup_args=${{ matrix.buildType.setupArgs }} --build-arg setup_args_pycarl=${{ matrix.buildType.setupArgs }} --build-arg no_threads=${NR_JOBS}
+      - name: Build image for learner
+        run: docker build -t ${{ matrix.buildType.imageName }}-learner:${{ matrix.buildType.dockerTag }} . -f paynt-learner.dockerfile --build-arg paynt_base=${{ matrix.buildType.imageName }}:${{ matrix.buildType.dockerTag }}
+      - name: Login into docker
+        # Only login if using master on original repo (and not for pull requests or forks)
+        if: github.repository_owner == 'randriu' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master'
+        run: echo '${{ secrets.STORMPY_CI_DOCKER_PASSWORD }}' | docker login -u randriu --password-stdin
+      - name: Deploy paynt with specific Storm version
+        # Only deploy if using master on original repo (and not for pull requests or forks)
+        if: github.repository_owner == 'randriu' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master'
+        run: docker push ${{ matrix.buildType.imageName }}:${{ matrix.buildType.dockerTag }}
+      - name: Deploy paynt with specific Storm version and learner dependencies
+        # Only deploy if using master on original repo (and not for pull requests or forks)
+        if: github.repository_owner == 'randriu' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master'
+        run: docker push ${{ matrix.buildType.imageName }}-learner:${{ matrix.buildType.dockerTag }}
+
+  deploy:
+    name: Deploy on latest (${{ matrix.buildType.name }})
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        buildType:
+          - {name: "Release", imageName : "randriu/paynt", dockerTag: "latest", stormTag: "ci", buildArgs: "BUILD_TYPE=Release", setupArgs: ""}
+      fail-fast: false
+    steps:
+      - name: Git clone
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Build stormpy from Dockerfile
+        run: docker build -t ${{ matrix.buildType.imageName }}:${{ matrix.buildType.dockerTag }} . --build-arg STORM_BASE=movesrwth/storm:${{ matrix.buildType.stormTag }} --build-arg build_type=${{ matrix.buildType.buildArgs }} --build-arg setup_args=${{ matrix.buildType.setupArgs }} --build-arg setup_args_pycarl=${{ matrix.buildType.setupArgs }} --build-arg no_threads=${NR_JOBS}
+      - name: Build image for learner
+        run: docker build -t ${{ matrix.buildType.imageName }}-learner:${{ matrix.buildType.dockerTag }} . -f paynt-learner.dockerfile --build-arg paynt_base=${{ matrix.buildType.imageName }}:${{ matrix.buildType.dockerTag }}
+      - name: Login into docker
+        # Only login if using master on original repo (and not for pull requests or forks)
+        if: github.repository_owner == 'randriu' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master'
+        run: echo '${{ secrets.STORMPY_CI_DOCKER_PASSWORD }}' | docker login -u randriu --password-stdin
+      - name: Deploy paynt
+        # Only deploy if using master on original repo (and not for pull requests or forks)
+        if: github.repository_owner == 'randriu' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master'
+        run: docker push ${{ matrix.buildType.imageName }}:${{ matrix.buildType.dockerTag }}
+      - name: Deploy paynt with learner dependencies
+        # Only deploy if using master on original repo (and not for pull requests or forks)
+        if: github.repository_owner == 'randriu' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master'
+        run: docker push ${{ matrix.buildType.imageName }}-learner:${{ matrix.buildType.dockerTag }}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 0dcfbd24d..3c6e38a52 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,58 +1,72 @@
-# the docker image can be built by executing:
-# docker build -t <image-name> .
-# to enable multi-thread compilation, use --build-arg threads=<value>
+FROM movesrwth/storm:ci
 
-FROM ubuntu
-MAINTAINER Roman Andriushchenko <iandri@fit.vut.cz>
-ARG threads=1
+# Install dependencies
+######################
+# Uncomment to update packages beforehand
+RUN apt-get update -qq
+RUN apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+    uuid-dev \
+    python3 \
+    python3-venv
 
+# CMake build type
+ARG build_type=Release
+# Additional arguments for compiling stormpy
+ARG setup_args=""
+# Additional arguments for compiling pycarl
+ARG setup_args_pycarl=""
+# Number of threads to use for parallel compilation
+ARG no_threads=2
 
-# execute bash when running the container
-ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/bash"]
+# WORKDIR /opt/
 
-# to prevent texlive from asking our geographical area
-ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
+# Obtain carl-parser from public repository
+# RUN git clone https://github.com/moves-rwth/carl-parser.git
 
-# install dependencies
-RUN apt update
-RUN apt install -y build-essential git automake cmake libboost-all-dev libcln-dev libgmp-dev libginac-dev libglpk-dev libhwloc-dev libz3-dev libxerces-c-dev libeigen3-dev   maven uuid-dev python3-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev python3-pip python3-venv   vim texlive-pictures
-RUN pip3 install pytest pytest-runner pytest-cov numpy scipy pysmt z3-solver click toml Cython scikit-build
+# # Switch to build directory
+# RUN mkdir -p /opt/carl-parser/build
+# WORKDIR /opt/carl-parser/build
 
+# # Configure carl-parser
+# RUN cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=$build_type
 
-# main directory
-WORKDIR /synthesis
+# # Build carl-parser
+# RUN make carl-parser -j $no_threads
 
-# download everything
-# using --depth 1 to make the download faster and the image smaller
-WORKDIR /synthesis/prerequisites
-RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/moves-rwth/pycarl.git pycarl
-RUN git clone --depth 1 --branch cvc5-1.0.0 https://github.com/cvc5/cvc5.git cvc5
-WORKDIR /synthesis
-RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/moves-rwth/storm.git storm
-RUN git clone --depth 1 --branch synthesis https://github.com/randriu/stormpy.git stormpy
-RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/randriu/synthesis.git paynt
+# Set-up virtual environment
+############################
+ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/opt/venv
+RUN python3 -m venv $VIRTUAL_ENV
+ENV PATH="$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin:$PATH"
+RUN pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
 
+# Build pycarl
+##############
+WORKDIR /opt/pycarl
 
-# build storm
-WORKDIR /synthesis/storm/build
-RUN cmake ..
-RUN make storm-main storm-pomdp --jobs $threads
-ENV PATH="/synthesis/storm/build/bin:$PATH"
+# Obtain latest version of pycarl from public repository
+RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/moves-rwth/pycarl.git .
 
-# build pycarl
-WORKDIR /synthesis/prerequisites/pycarl
-RUN python3 setup.py build_ext --jobs $threads develop
+# Build pycarl
+RUN python setup.py build_ext $setup_args_pycarl -j $no_threads develop
 
-# building cvc5 is slow and hybrid is rarely used, so you may skip it and use z3 instead
-#WORKDIR /synthesis/prerequisites/cvc5
-#RUN ./configure.sh --prefix="." --auto-download --python-bindings
-#WORKDIR /synthesis/prerequisites/cvc5/build
-#RUN make --jobs $threads
-#RUN make install
+# Build stormpy
+###############
+WORKDIR /opt/stormpy
 
-# build stormpy
-WORKDIR /synthesis/stormpy
-RUN python3 setup.py build_ext --storm-dir /synthesis/storm/build --jobs $threads develop
+# Copy the content of the current local stormpy repository into the Docker image
+RUN git clone --depth 1 --branch synthesis https://github.com/randriu/stormpy.git .
 
-# set the initial folder
-WORKDIR /synthesis/paynt
+# Build stormpy
+RUN python setup.py build_ext $setup_args -j $no_threads develop
+
+# Paynt  dependencies
+RUN pip install pysmt z3-solver click numpy
+
+# Build paynt
+#############
+WORKDIR /opt/paynt
+
+COPY . .
+
+RUN pip install -e .
diff --git a/paynt-learner.dockerfile b/paynt-learner.dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..02eca0fb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paynt-learner.dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+ARG paynt_base=randriu/paynt:ci
+FROM $paynt_base
+
+RUN pip install torch --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
+
+RUN pip install ipykernel joblib tensorboard
diff --git a/synthesis.dockerfile b/paynt-specific-storm.dockerfile
similarity index 51%
rename from synthesis.dockerfile
rename to paynt-specific-storm.dockerfile
index b80fbea94..54d7ca644 100644
--- a/synthesis.dockerfile
+++ b/paynt-specific-storm.dockerfile
@@ -1,98 +1,85 @@
-# Base Dockerfile for using stormpy
-###################################
-# The Docker image can be built by executing:
-# docker build -t yourusername/stormpy .
-# A different Storm base image can be set from the commandline with:
-# --build-arg STORM_BASE=<new_base_image>
-
-# Set Storm base image
-ARG STORM_BASE=movesrwth/storm:stable
-FROM $STORM_BASE
-
-
-# Configuration arguments
-#########################
-# The arguments can be set from the commandline with:
-# --build-arg <arg_name>=<value>
-
-# CMake build type
-ARG build_type=Release
-# Additional arguments for compiling stormpy
-ARG setup_args=""
-# Additional arguments for compiling pycarl
-ARG setup_args_pycarl=""
-# Number of threads to use for parallel compilation
-ARG no_threads=2
-
+FROM movesrwth/storm-basesystem:latest
 
 # Install dependencies
 ######################
 # Uncomment to update packages beforehand
 RUN apt-get update -qq
 RUN apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-    maven \
     uuid-dev \
     python3 \
     python3-venv
-# Packages maven and uuid-dev are required for carl-parser
 
+# CMake build type
+ARG build_type=Release
+# Additional arguments for compiling stormpy
+ARG setup_args=""
+# Additional arguments for compiling pycarl
+ARG setup_args_pycarl=""
+# Number of threads to use for parallel compilation
+ARG no_threads=2
+# Specific storm git commit revision SHA
+ARG storm_sha=dc7960b8f0222793b591f3d6489e2f6c7da1278f
 
-# Build carl-parser
-###################
 WORKDIR /opt/
+RUN git clone https://github.com/moves-rwth/storm.git storm
+WORKDIR /opt/storm/build
+RUN git reset --hard $storm_sha
+RUN cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=$build_type
+RUN make storm-main storm-pomdp --jobs $no_threads
+ENV PATH="/opt/storm/build/bin:$PATH"
 
 # Obtain carl-parser from public repository
-RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/moves-rwth/carl-parser.git
+# RUN git clone https://github.com/moves-rwth/carl-parser.git
 
-# Switch to build directory
-RUN mkdir -p /opt/carl-parser/build
-WORKDIR /opt/carl-parser/build
+# # Switch to build directory
+# RUN mkdir -p /opt/carl-parser/build
+# WORKDIR /opt/carl-parser/build
 
-# Configure carl-parser
-RUN cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=$build_type
+# # Configure carl-parser
+# RUN cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=$build_type
 
-# Build carl-parser
-RUN make carl-parser -j $no_threads
+# # Build carl-parser
+# RUN make carl-parser -j $no_threads
 
 
 # Set-up virtual environment
 ############################
 ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/opt/venv
-RUN python3 -m venv --upgrade-deps $VIRTUAL_ENV
+RUN python3 -m venv $VIRTUAL_ENV
 ENV PATH="$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin:$PATH"
-
+RUN pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
 
 # Build pycarl
 ##############
-WORKDIR /opt/
+WORKDIR /opt/pycarl
 
 # Obtain latest version of pycarl from public repository
-RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/moves-rwth/pycarl.git
-
-# Switch to pycarl directory
-WORKDIR /opt/pycarl
+RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/moves-rwth/pycarl.git .
 
 # Build pycarl
 RUN python setup.py build_ext $setup_args_pycarl -j $no_threads develop
 
-
 # Build stormpy
 ###############
-RUN mkdir /opt/stormpy
 WORKDIR /opt/stormpy
 
-# Copy the content of the synthesis repository into the Docker image
+# Copy the content of the current local stormpy repository into the Docker image
 RUN git clone --depth 1 --branch synthesis https://github.com/randriu/stormpy.git .
 
 # Build stormpy
 RUN python setup.py build_ext $setup_args -j $no_threads develop
 
+# Additional dependencies
+##########################
+
+RUN pip install -U pip setuptools wheel numpy
+
+# Paynt / extra dependencies
+RUN pip install pysmt z3-solver click
+
 # Build paynt
 #############
 WORKDIR /opt/paynt
-COPY . /opt/paynt
-
-# Paynt / extra dependencies
-RUN pip install pytest pytest-runner pytest-cov numpy scipy pysmt z3-solver click toml Cython scikit-build
+COPY . .
 
-RUN pip install .
+RUN pip install -e .