The PhD proposal has been arranged considering the research works already carried out and published and those are continuing in the areas of AI Alignment and Social Cooperation of Autonomous AI Agents, Speedup and Scalability for Efficient Multi-Agent AI, Multi-Agent Explainable AI and Unlearning to Build Trustworthy AI and Real World Applications of Multi-Agent AI for Climate Conservation, Global Supply Chain orchestration etc.
Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay is a 4th year PhD student of Computer Science, advised by Prof. John Dickerson. His PhD research is on Multi-Agent Autonomous Decision Making in AI to develop and deploy autonomous AI agents, focusing on Multi-Agent RL (MARL), Imitation Learning, Meta Learning and other Autonomous Decision Making paradigms with application to climate conservation, autonomous orchestration in supply chains, AI privacy, aligning LLM agents, speeding up multi-agent training with JAX etc. He has been an AI Resident at Google X, a DoGood Fellow, a Dean's Summer Fellow at UMD, Research Intern at CNRS LORIA, INRIA Nancy; German Center of AI (DFKI) Saarbrucken; and the University of Saarland along with working on DoD/IC, NSF, NIH projects.