diff --git a/content/research/_index.md b/content/research/_index.md index 3d70532..bd6d35a 100644 --- a/content/research/_index.md +++ b/content/research/_index.md @@ -10,33 +10,35 @@ Description: A list of my research Projects ## Planning under Uncertainty During my PhD I have been primarily focused on investigating planning and sequential decision -making under uncertainty through integrative methods: -- With [Selmer Bringsjord](https://homepages.rpi.edu/~brings/) in the [RAIR Lab](https://rair.cogsci.rpi.edu/) I have looked at planning through automated reasoning. +making under uncertainty: +- I created a new framework which allows agents to make plans under *qualitative uncertainty*. +This helps in settings where the user doesn't have exact probabilities that various +facts holds, but can instead bucket them into different likelihood values. +This work is supervised under [Selmer Bringsjord](https://homepages.rpi.edu/~brings/). +- Additionally with Selmer Bringsjord in the [RAIR Lab](https://rair.cogsci.rpi.edu/), I have looked at planning through automated reasoning. I further developed [Spectra](https://github.com/rairlab/spectra) and the underlying planning with formulas framework to show classes of uncertainty problems that are easy to encode. Additionally, I wrote a QA algorithm for ShadowProver to integrate to Spectra for planning under epistemic uncertatinty. - With [Junkyu Lee](https://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=ibm-Junkyu.Lee), [Michael Katz](https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=ibm-Michael.Katz1), -[Harsha Kokel](https://research.ibm.com/people/harsha-kokel), and [Shirin Sohrabi](https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-ssohrab) at IBM I developed an algorithm +[Harsha Kokel](https://harshakokel.com/), and [Shirin Sohrabi](https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-ssohrab) at IBM I developed an algorithm for guiding hiearchical reinforcement agents under partial observability when domain knowledge -can be encoded for characterizing discovery of unknown predicates. This techinque -uses a fully-observable non-deterministic planner to generate a high-level policy -where each high-level action is an option that a reinforcement learning agent -needs to learn. -- More to come... +can be encoded for characterizing discovery of unknown predicates. ## Logic -Underlying my work in artificial intelligence and cryptography +Underlying my work in artificial intelligence and cryptography is computational logic. In that regard, I have been able work on problems from the underlying logic formalisms, unification algorithms, to building tools for interactive theorem provers. -- With Andrew Marshall and Kimberly Cornell, we're currently developing a new syntactic AC algorithm. -- With Thomas Ferguson and James Oswald we formalized a model theory for a fragment of the Deontic Cognitive Event Calculus. +- With [Andrew Tedder](https://sites.google.com/view/andrewjtedder/research), I'm currently working +on building a tool that checks if matrix models of given logic satisfies relevance properties. +- With [Andrew Marshall](https://www.marshallandrew.net/) and [Kimberly Cornell](https://www.albany.edu/cehc/faculty/kimberly-cornell), we're currently developing a new syntactic AC algorithm. +- With [Thomas Ferguson](https://faculty.rpi.edu/thomas-ferguson) and [James Oswald](https://jamesoswald.dev) we formalized a model theory for a fragment of the Deontic Cognitive Event Calculus. - With James Oswald we've built interactive theorem provers and showed validity of large proofs in parallel using a high performance cluster. @@ -65,7 +67,7 @@ Collaborators: - NRL: Catherine Meadows - UMW: [Andrew Marshall](https://www.marshallandrew.net/) - UT Dallas: Serdar Erbatur -- SUNY Albany: [Paliath Narendran](https://www.cs.albany.edu/~dran/) and Kimberly Cornell +- SUNY Albany: [Paliath Narendran](https://www.cs.albany.edu/~dran/) and [Kimberly Cornell](https://www.albany.edu/cehc/faculty/kimberly-cornell) - Clarkson University: [Christopher Lynch](https://people.clarkson.edu/~clynch/) and Hai Lin