Sept. 2025: Received the George Corcoran Memorial Award for Teaching and Educational Leadership at UMD.
Sept. 2025: I am co-organizing a workshop on decentralized control/information and (reinforcement) learning at IEEE CDC 2025. Please feel free to sign up if you are a Ph.D. student/postdoc interested in presenting.
Sept. 2025: Received Open Philanthropy AI Safety Research Award.
Sept. 2025: Paper on understanding learning-to-communicate through the lens of information structures from control theory is accepted to IEEE CDC 2025 (congrats to my student Haoyi on his first submission and acceptance!).
June 2025: Tutorial on Recent Advances of Learning in Dynamic Games at ACM SIGMETRICS 2025.
May 2025: Recognized as Outstanding Meta Reviewer for ICML 2025.
May 2025: Paper on post-co-training multiple LLMs with reinforcement learning is accepted to ACL 2025 as a main conference paper (also appeared as an Oral at the ICML workshop).
May 2025: Received Cisco Research Award.
Feb. 2025: Invited to speak at the SILO Seminar and visit UW Madison.
Feb. 2025: Received AFOSR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award.
Jan. 2025: Paper on better understanding LLM agents for online and multi-agent decision-making is accepted to ICLR 2025 (also appeared as an Oral at the ICLR workshop).
Dec. 2024: Received National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award.
Dec. 2024: Recognized by AAAI New Faculty Highlights 2025.
Sept. 2024: Paper on better understanding partially observable reinforcement learning with privileged information was accepted to NeurIPS 2024.
July 2024: Invited tutorial at the EPFL/ETH Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Summer School. You may find my tutorial slides (that may keep updating) here.
April 2024: Invited to speak at the Adaptive Learning in Complex Environments Workshop at TTIC.
April 2024: Invited to speak at the Reinforcement Learning Symposium at Boston University.
March 2024: Invited tutorial at the European Control Conference (ECC) 2024 on Learning-based Control: Fundamentals and Recent Advances.
March 2024: Invited to speak at the Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS)'s Modern Reinforcement Learning Session.
June 2023: Attended and gave an invited tutorial at 5th Annual Learning for Dynamics & Control (L4DC) Conference.
May 2023: Organized a workshop at American Control Conference (ACC) 2023, and invited to speak at SIAM Optimization (OP) 23, on policy optimization for control.
April 2023: Invited to speak at the Robotics Seminar @ Illinois.
April 2023: Paper on partially observable multi-agent RL is accepted to ICML 2023 (first submission and acceptance with my student, congrats Xiangyu!).
Feb. 2023: Invited to speak at the Information Theory and Applications (ITA) Workshop's Learning and Control Session.
Jan. 2023: Honored to be invited to speak at the Cognition and Control in Complex Systems Workshop hosted by Prof. Sean Meyn.
Oct. 2022: We put together an invited article for Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, on policy optimization for learning control policies.
Oct. 2022: I am awarded the CSL Ph.D. Thesis Award for contributions in reinforcement learning, control theory, and game theory.
July 2022: Our paper on differentiable simulator for robotics has been selected as Outstanding Paper Award for ICML 2022.
June 2022: Invited article at International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), companioned by Asu's talk at ICM 2022 and ICCOPT 2022 Plenary.
May 2022: Invited talk at the Gamification and Multiagent Solutions workshop at International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2022.
March 2022: Invited talk at the UC Berkeley Semi-Autonomous Seminar.
Jan.-May 2022: I am visiting the Simons Institute at Berkeley as a Research Fellow for the program Learning and Games this spring.
May 2021: I defended my Ph.D., and will be joining the University of Maryland, College Park as an Assistant Professor. I also started my Postdoc at MIT.
May 2021: Our paper on policy optimization for robust control is accepted to SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (SICON).