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I am currently an Assistant Professor at Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. I did my Postdoctoral research fellowships at School of Computer Science & Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore with Prof. Arvind Easwaran and at Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore (NUS) with Prof. Harold Soh. I completed my PhD in Computer Science in August 2021 from School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University (SMU) advised by Prof. Akshat Kumar and Prof. Hoong Chuin Lau. I did my B.Tech from NIT Silchar, Assam. [Full Bio]

Office Address:
513-C, Academic Complex East Building [Direction]
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Hauz Khas, New Delhi, India.
Email - jamesa@scai.iitd.ac.in

Note: I am looking for highly motivated PhD/MSR/MTech students to work in the field of Reinforcement Learning and Multi-Agent Learning. Candidates should have a strong mathematical background and excellent coding skills. Undergraduate students at IIT Delhi with strong coding abilities are also welcome to apply for short-term or long-term projects. If you are interested, drop me an email with your latest CV.

Research Interests

My primary research interests are in Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Multi-Agent Learning. Below is a list of research areas I am currently working on:

• Reinforcement Learning
• Multi-Agent Learning
• Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems
• AI for Video Games
• Human-AI Interaction

News

• Teaching Deep Learning (AIL721) next semester (AY2024-2025 - II).
• Our paper, PAS: Probably Approximate Safety Verification of Reinforcement Learning Policy Using Scenario Optimization. is accepted in International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS-2024).

Professional Services

• Program Committee Member (Reviewer):
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
  • AAMAS-2025, AAAI 2025-2020, IJCAI 2024-2022, ICAPS 2024-2022, ICRA 2022, IAAI 2022
    
• Local Organizing Committee, AAMAS - 2016
  

Awards & Honours

• Dean List - 2021, 2020, 2019 for research excellence at School of Computing & Information Systems, Singapore Management University (SMU).
• SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship - 2020, 2019 for outstanding academic research achievements.
• Selected to attend Global Young Scientists Summit 2020.
• Fujitsu-SMU Ph.D Student Scholarship - (2017-2021).
• Gold Medal from National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India for M.Tech. 2014.

Invited Talks

• Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence, IIT Delhi - April 2024.
• Department of Computer Science, IIT Delhi - April 2024.
• Department of Computer Science & Automation, IISc Banglore - March 2024.
• Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, IIT Bombay - February 2024.
• Center for Machine Intelligence & Data Science, IIT Bombay - February 2024.