Publications and Patents
Selected Publications (see Google Scholar for all papers)
Combinatorial Optimization
Vineet Nair, Kritika Prakash, Michael Wilbur, Aparna Taneja, Corrine Namblard, Oyindamola Adeyemo, Abhishek Dubey, Abiodun Adereni, Milind Tambe, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, “ADVISER: AI-Driven Vaccination Intervention Optimiser for Increasing Vaccine Uptake in Nigeria,” International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2022). [Best Paper Award]
Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Kai Wang, Andrew Perrault, Mykel Kochenderfer, Milind Tambe, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, “Robust Spatio-Temporal Incident Prediction,” Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2020).
Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Abhishek Dubey, Gautam Biswas, “Prioritized Allocation of Emergency Responders based on a Continuous-Time Incident Prediction Model,” Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems. (AAMAS 2017).
Chao Zhang, Victor Bucarey, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Arunesh Sinha, Yundi Qian, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Milind Tambe, “Using abstractions to solve opportunistic crime security games at scale.” Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2016).
Sequential Decision-Making
Baiting Luo, Ava Pettet, Aron Laszka, Abhishek Dubey, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, "Scalable Decision-Making in Stochastic Environments through Learned Temporal Abstraction'', International Conference on Learning Representations, (ICLR 2025) [Spotlight]
Fangqi Liu, Rishav Sen, Jose Paolo Talusan, Ava Pettet, Aaron Kandel, Yoshinori Suzue, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Abhishek Dubey. "Reinforcement Learning-based Approach for Vehicle-to-Building Charging with Heterogeneous Agents and Long Term Rewards,'' International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2025) [Nominated for Best Paper Award]
Ziyan An, Xia Wang, Hendrik Baier, Zirong Chen, Abhishek Dubey, Taylor T Johnson, Jonathan Sprinkle, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Meiyi Ma, "LogiEx: Logic-Enhanced Natural Language Explanations for Monte Carlo Tree Search,'' International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (Extended Abstract) (AAMAS 2025)
Amutheezan Sivagnanam, Ava Pettet, Hunter Lee, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Abhishek Dubey, and Aron Laszka. “Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Hierarchical Coordination for Emergency Responder Stationing.” International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024)
Luo, Baiting, Zhang, Yunuo, Dubey, Abhishek, and Mukhopadhyay, Ayan. “Act as You Learn: Adaptive Decision-Making in Non-Stationary Markov Decision Processes.” International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2024).
Pettet, Ava, Zhang, Yunuo, Luo, Baiting, Wray, Kyle, Baier, Hendrik, Laszka, Aron, Dubey, Abhishek, and Mukhopadhyay, Ayan. “Decision Making in Non-Stationary Environments with Policy-Augmented Search.” International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2024).
Jose Paolo Talusan, Chaeeun Han, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Aron Laszka, Dan Freudberg and Abhishek Dubey. “An Online Approach to Solving Public Transit Stationing and Dispatch Problem.” International Conference in Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS 2024) [Best Paper Award]
Baiting Luo, Shreyas Ramakrishna, Ava Pettet, Christopher Kuhn, Gabor Karsai, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, “Dynamic Simplex: Balancing Safety and Performance in Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems,” International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS 2022).
Amutheezan Sivagnanam, Salah Kadir, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Philip Pugliese, Abhishek Dubey, Samitha Samaranayake, Aron Laszka, “Offline Vehicle Routing Problem with Online Bookings: A Novel Problem Formulation with Applications to Paratransit,” International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2022).
Geoffrey Pettet, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Mykel Kochenderfer, Abhishek Dubey, “Hierarchical Planning for Resource Allocation in Emergency Response Systems,” ACM/IEEE Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS 2021). [One of the best papers, TCPS Special Issue Invite]
Geoffrey Pettet, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Mykel Kochenderfer, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Abhishek Dubey, “On Algorithmic Decision Procedures in Emergency Response Systems in Smart and Connected Communities,” Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2020).
Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Zilin Wang, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, “A Decision-Theoretic Framework for Emergency Responder Dispatch,” Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems. (AAMAS 2018).
Cross-cutting challenges in Optimization and Sequential Decision-Making (e.g., explainability, fairness, and equity)
Ziyan An, Hendrik Baier, Abhishek Dubey, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Meiyi Ma. “Enabling MCTS Explainability for Sequential Planning Through Computation Tree Logic” European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024)
Sophie Pavia, J. Carlos Martinez Mori, Aryaman Sharma, Philip Pugliese, Abhishek Dubey, Samitha Samaranayake, and Ayan Mukhopadhyay, “Designing Equitable Transit Networks”, ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO 2023) [INFORMS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Best Paper Award]
Yiqi Zhao, Ziyan An, Xuqing Gao, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Meiyi Ma, “Fairguard: Harness Logic-based Fairness Rules in Smart Cities,” ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI 2023)
Machine Learning and Data Mining (learning-based approaches to sequential decision-making are listed under decision-making)
Yasas Senarath, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Sayyed Mohsen Vazirizade, Hemant Purohit, Saideep Nannapaneni, Abhishek Dubey, “Practitioner-Centric Approach for Early Incident Detection Using Crowdsourced Data for Emergency Services,” International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2021). (Acceptance rate: 20%)
Michael Wilbur, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Sayyed Vazirizade, Philip Pugliese, Aron Laszka, Abhishek Dubey, “Energy and Emission Prediction for Mixed-Vehicle Transit Fleets Using Multi-Task and Inductive Transfer Learning”, European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2021).
Singla, Samriddhi, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Michael Wilbur, Tina Diao, Vinayak Gajjewar, Ahmed Eldawy, Mykel Kochenderfer, Ross Shachter, Abhishek Dubey, “WildfireDB: An Open-Source Dataset Connecting Wildfire Spread with Relevant Determinants,” Neural Information Processing Systems Track on Datasets and Benchmarks (NeurIPS 2021).
Samriddhi Singla, Ahmed Eldawy, Tina Diao, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Elia Scudiero, “The Raptor Join Operator for Processing Big Raster + Vector Data,” ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL 2021).
Deploying Research to Practice
Kehinde Opadele, Abdul Ruth, Afolabi Bose, Vir Parminder, Namblard Corinne, Mukhopadhyay Ayan, and Adereni Abiodun. “Deploying ADVISER: Impact and Lessons from Using Artificial Intelligence for Child Vaccination Uptake in Nigeria,” AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2024).
Sophie Pavia, David Rogers, Amutheezan Sivagnanam, Michael Wilbur, Danushka Edirimanna, Youngseo Kim, Philip Pugliese, Samitha Samaranayake, Aron Laszka, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, and Abhishek Dubey. “Deploying Mobility-On-Demand for All by Optimizing Paratransit Services” International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2024).
Sophie Pavia, David Rogers, Amutheezan Sivagnanam, Michael Wilbur, Danushka Edirimanna, Youngseo Kim, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Philip Pugliese, Samitha Samaranayake, Aron Laszka, and Abhishek Dubey. “SmartTransit.AI: A Dynamic Paratransit and Microtransit Application.” International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2024 Demonstration Track)
Geoffrey Pettet, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Chinmaya Samal, Abhishek Dubey, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, “Incident Management and Analysis Dashboard for Fire Departments," ACM/IEEE Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS 2019 Demonstration Track)
Patents
1. “Electric Vehicle Charging Control Device,” USA Patent, 2023 (NTCNA-2022-110-US) (Patent Pending).
2. “Electric Vehicle Charging Control Device,” USA Patent, 2023 (NTCNA-2022-113-US) (Patent Pending).
3. “Forecasting Energy Consumption in a Mixed Transit Fleet,” USA and International Patent, 2021 (PCT/US2022/080118) (Patent Pending).
4. “A Security Device,” India Patent Reference: E-2/2217/2013-KOL, Application: 616/KOL/2012.
5. “Hybrid Car Power Transition Mechanism,” India Patent, Official Journal Of The Patent Office, Government of India, Issue No. 31/2012.