"Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot.
Seek the path that demands your whole being."-Rumi
About me
I am a PostDoctoral Researcher in the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park. My research area is AI planning and acting. I am working with Prof. Dana Nau, Dr. Mak Roberts, Dr. Malik Ghallab, Paolo Traverso, and Dr. Myong Kang. I defended my PhD in Summer 2020. My PhD advisor was Prof. Dana Nau. Prior to this, I did my undergraduate studies at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and worked as a Software Engineer at Microsoft.
My Ph.D. thesis topic is 'Acting, planning and learning with hierarchical operational models' [link]. It addresses the challenges faced by hierarchically organized actors (that do continual online planning and acting) in dynamic environments. We have developed integrated algorithms that incorporate all three: acting, planning, and learning using a unified representation of hierarchical operational models.
Here is a link to my résumé.
Selected Publications
(For full list, see this link)
[7] Ruoxi Li, Sunandita Patra, Dana Nau. Decentralized Refinement Planning and Acting. Accepted for publication at ICAPS-21.
[6] Sunandita Patra, Alex Velazquez, Myong Kang, Dana Nau. Using Online Planning and Acting to Recover from Cyberattacks on Software-defined Networks. IAAI-21.
[5] Sunandita Patra, James Mason, Malik Ghallab, Paolo Traverso, Dana Nau. Deliberative Acting, Online Planning and Learning with Hierarchical Operational Models. Accepted in Artificial Intelligence Journal [ArXiv link]
[4] Sunandita Patra, James Mason, Amit Kumar, Malik Ghallab, Dana Nau, Paolo Traverso. Integrating Acting, Planning, and Learning in Hierarchical Operational Models. ICAPS 2020. Best Student Paper Honorable Mention Award. [link]
[3] Sunandita Patra, Malik Ghallab, Dana Nau, Paolo Traverso. Acting and Planning Using Operational Models. AAAI 2019. [link]
[2] Sunandita Patra, Malik Ghallab, Dana Nau and Paolo Traverso. APE: An Acting and Planning Engine. Journal of Advances in Cognitive Systems, 2018. [link]
[1] Sunandita Patra, Satya Gautam Vadlamudi, and Partha Pratim Chakrabarti. Anytime contract search. SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence 2013. [link]
Get in Touch
[3] Invited talk at Naval Warfare Center (December 3, 2020) [slides]
[2] Paper presentation at ICAPS 2020 [video]
[1] Summer School at ICAPS 2020 [video]