Current Appointments & Affiliations
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Engineering Graduate and Professional Programs
·
2025 - Present
Engineering Graduate and Professional Programs,
Pratt School of Engineering
Recent Publications
Action-Dependent Optimality-Preserving Reward Shaping
Conference Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Aamas · January 1, 2025 Recent RL research has utilized reward shaping-particularly complex shaping rewards such as intrinsic motivation (IM)-to encourage agent exploration in sparse-reward environments. While often effective, “reward hacking” can lead to the shaping reward being ... CiteThe Story So Far on Narrative Planning
Conference Proceedings International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling Icaps · May 30, 2024 Narrative planning is the use of automated planning to construct, communicate, and understand stories, a form of information to which human cognition and enaction is predisposed. We review the narrative planning problem in a manner suitable as an introduct ... Full text CiteCollaborative Comic Generation: Integrating Visual Narrative Theories with AI Models for Enhanced Creativity
Conference Ceur Workshop Proceedings · January 1, 2024 This study presents a theory-inspired visual narrative generative system that integrates conceptual principles—comic authoring idioms—with generative and language models to enhance the comic creation process. Our system combines human creativity with AI mo ... CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
North Carolina State University ·
2009
Ph.D.
North Carolina State University ·
2004
M.S.
Gujarat University (India) ·
2001
A.B.