Incoming Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering at NYU Tandon since 2023
Research goal: enabling complex, human-like behavior to emerge from unsupervised interaction among learning agents
Applications focus on robotics and transportation
Current research interests: using RL to model human agents, ensuring human compatibility of RL agents, synthesizing environments to test agent capabilities, and developing necessary algorithmic and software tools
Practical work involves advancing multi-agent RL algorithms, designing data-driven simulators, and deploying simulator-designed controllers in real-world systems