Scholar
Harsha Kokel
Google Scholar ID: eiGQoO4AAAAJ
Research Scientist, IBM Research
Citations & Impact
Citations
303
H-index
9
i10-index
9
Publications
20
Co-authors
27
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Publications: Conferences including AAAI, NeurIPS, IJCAI, ICAPS, and ACS; Awards: 2024 David Daniel Thesis Award; Other Contributions: Reviewed papers for various journals, conferences, and workshops; Invited Talks: Such as LLMs for AI Planning at the AI Institute at UofSC; Organized Events: PLAN-FM Bridge Program accepted to AAAI 2026; Tutorials: Like 'Planning in the Era of Language Models' at NeurIPS 2025.
Research Experience
- Research Scientist at IBM Research; Research Projects: Automating sequential decision-making, AI planning, etc.; Position: Assistant Electronic Publishing Editor for JAIR (2020-2023).
Education
- Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Dallas; Advisor: Prof. Sriraam Natarajan; Time: Not explicitly stated; Major: Not explicitly stated; Doctoral dissertation received the 2024 David Daniel Thesis Award.
Background
- Research Focus: Automating sequential decision-making using Artificial Intelligence (AI); Areas of Interest: Search, planning, reasoning, and generalization; Overview: Dedicated to developing methods that enable AI models to acquire a rich understanding of complex domain-specific knowledge and semantics.
Miscellany
- Personal Interests: Happy to chat with PhD, master's, and undergraduate students about life, career development, or research ideas in AI/ML; Special Invitation: Extends this invitation to Sindhi students, female students, and students from underrepresented groups for a weekly 30-minute meeting.
