Siddharth Srivastava's Homepage

Staff Research Scientist United Technologies Research Center Berkeley, CA sidsrivast /at/ gmail.com

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I recently joined United Technologies Research Center at Berkeley. Earlier, I was a postdoctoral researcher in EECS at UC Berkeley, working with Prof. Stuart Russell.

My research is on principles and applications of sequential decision making and reasoning.

News

• Tired of Doing Your Laundry? PR2 Robot Comes to the Rescue [NBC News]
  
  YES! PR2 Very Close to Completing Laundry Cycle [IEEE Spectrum]
  
  
• Paper on planning with loops for numeric domains accepted at AAAI-15.
  Video of the PR2 robot doing laundry using this approach.

Older News

• Paper on first-order open-universe POMDPs accepted for plenary presentation at UAI 2014.


• Paper on combined task and motion planning in robotics accepted at ICRA 2014. [Videos of experiments with the PR2 robot]


• I presented a tutorial on task and motion planning for robots in the real world, at ICAPS 2014.


• I am co-organizing a workshop on AI and robotics at IROS 2014.


• I received a Best Dissertation Award (runner-up) at ICAPS 2011.
  
  
• I was awarded an Outstanding Dissertation Award by the Department of Computer Science, UMass Amherst.
  
  
• I will be co-organizing a follow-up workshop on Generalized Planning at AAAI-11.
  
  
• Our paper "Computing Applicability Conditions for Plans with Loops" won the best paper award at ICAPS, 2010!
  
  
• A generalized planning group/mailing-list has been created for announcements related to generalized planning.
• I co-organized a workshop on Generalized Planning at ICAPS, 2009.

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Teaching

Fall 2010: CMPSCI 791AP - Advanced Topics in Automated Planning

Conferences

I am (or have been) associated with the following conferences and workshops:

Organizing Committee

• Workshop on AI and Robotics, IROS 2014
• Workshop on Generalized Planning, AAAI 2011
• Workshop on Generalized Planning: Macros, Loops and Domain Control, ICAPS 2009

Senior Program Committee Member

• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2011, 2013, 2015

Program Committee Member

• Twenty Fifth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2015)
• Twenty Eighth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2014)
• ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob) 2014
• Twelfth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2014)
• AAAI Workshop on Intelligent Robotic Systems, 2013
• Twenty Seventh Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2013)
• ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob) 2013
• Twenty Sixth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2012)
• Eleventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2012)
• Twenty Second International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2012)
• Twenty Fifth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2011)
• Twenty First International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2011)
• Workshop on Decision Making in Partially Observable, Uncertain Worlds, IJCAI 2011
• Twenty Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2008)

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