I’m thrilled to announce that the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) has accepted not one, but two of my workshop papers for presentation at their conference in June…marking an exciting chapter in my academic journey!
The first paper, Reducing Human-Robot Goal State Divergence with Environment Design, will be presented as part of the Human-Aware and Explainable Planning Workshop (HAXP). It explores how to better align a human’s expected final goal state with the one a robot achieves, avoiding negative side effects in the process. Working on this project was a deeply rewarding experience and taught me so much about environment design and value alignment in AI.
Similarly, the second paper, Traversing the Linguistic Divide: Aligning Semantically Equivalent Fluents Through Model Refinement, will be presented as part of the Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS) workshop. It focuses on how to extract model information from diverse sources where different documents may contain identical information referred to in different terms. For this project, I had the opportunity to collaborate with researchers from the Naval Research Lab, whose expertise and guidance undoubtedly helped enhance the quality and depth of this work.
I can’t wait to share both papers with everyone! The conference will be held in beautiful Banff, Canada and starts in early June.