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 and Prof. Pieter Abbeel.

My research is on principles and applications of sequential decision making and reasoning under uncertainty. This involves the mathematical and computational aspects of designing safe intelligent systems that can work effectively for, and with, humans. With this objective, I am particularly interested in the formal foundations and computational techniques for using abstractions to enable efficient hierarchical reasoning in autonomous agents that work in the real world.

Press Coverage: Discovery News | AAAS Eureka Alert | NBC News | IEEE Spectrum

News

• Paper on strategy synthesis for pursuit-evasion problems accepted for presentation at ECAI-16.
  
  
• Paper on Markovian abstractions for MDPs accepted for presentation at IJCAI-16.
  
  
• Paper on guided search for task and motion plans using learned heuristics accepted for presentation at ICRA-16.
  
  
• Paper on the metaphysics of planning domain descriptions accepted for presentation at AAAI-16.
  
  
• I will be presenting an invited talk at the IROS-15 workshop on Task Planning for Intelligent Robots in Service and Manufacturing.
  
  
• I gave a AAAI-15/RoboCup Consortium invited talk at the RoboCup Symposium 2015, in Hefei, China.
  
  
• 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, 2016

Program Committee Member

• Thirtieth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2016)
• Twenty Sixth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2016)
• 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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