Scholar
Akshat Kumar
Google Scholar ID: WHZiLTIAAAAJ
Associate Professor, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,185
H-index
18
i10-index
36
Publications
20
Co-authors
16
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Contact
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Received several international awards including the best dissertation award from the School of Computer Science, UMass Amherst, and at the 2014 International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS); outstanding application paper award at ICAPS 2014 and the best paper award in the 2017 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence’s computational sustainability track. Featured among the 2018 AI’s ten to watch list by the IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine.
Research Experience
- Worked as a research scientist at IBM Research India in the Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences Dept. from Oct 2012 till Feb. 2014.
Education
- Received Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2012, advised by Prof. Shlomo Zilberstein; Bachelor's in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati in 2005.
Background
- Research interests lie at the intersection of AI and ML with a focus on multiagent decision making and reinforcement learning. Particularly excited by the application of large scale multiagent planning and learning for optimizing urban systems including land and maritime transportation.
Miscellany
- Looking for smart and motivated Ph.D. students to work on some exciting projects in the area of AI and machine learning!
