Pulkit Verma
Postdoc at Interactive Robotics Group, MIT
I am a Postdoctoral Associate in the Interactive Robotics Group at CSAIL and AeroAstro, MIT, working with Prof. Julie Shah. I completed my Ph.D. from the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence at Arizona State University, working with Prof. Siddharth Srivastava. During my Ph.D., I was also affiliated with UC Berkeley’s Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence, and ASU’s Center for Human, Artificial Intelligence, and Robot Teaming. I have completed M.Tech. from Department of Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Guwahati, advised by Prof. Pradip K. Das.
My primary interests lie in AI safety, AI planning, action-model learning, interpretability, and analysis of abstractions. My research focuses on safe and reliable behavior of AI agents. I am currently investigating the minimal set of requirements in an AI system that would enable a user to assess and understand the limits of its safe operability.
In the past, I have worked in the areas of bio-inspired robotics, speech processing, and internet of things.
News
| Feb 20, 2025 | Our work Interpretability Analysis of Symbolic Representations for Sequential Decision-Making Systems has been accepted at HRI 2025 Workshop on Explainability for Human-Robot Collaboration: Real-World Concerns. More details available soon!! |
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| Feb 19, 2025 | Two of our works Developing Shared Mental Models for Human-AI Collaboration in Autonomous Aircraft Operations and Leveraging LLMs for Collaborative Human-AI Decision Making have been accepted for presentation at AAAI 2025 Spring Symposium on Current and Future Varieties of Human-AI Collaboration. More details available soon!! |
| Jan 17, 2025 | Awarded the AAAI/ACM SIGAI Innovative AI Education Award 2025 for my essay Bridging the Language Divide: Generative AI’s Promise for Global Education. This will be presented at the Blue Sky Ideas Session in AAAI 2025 Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence. |
| Dec 21, 2024 | Invited to attend the Inaugural Conference of the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI in Paris from February 6-7, 2025. |
| Dec 19, 2024 | Our work AI Planning: A Primer and Survey (Preliminary Report) has been accepted at AAAI 2025 Workshop on Bridging the Gap Between AI Planning and Reinforcement Learning. |