Latest News & Highlights
Recent achievements and activities
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2026
Position Paper Accepted to ICML 2026! - "Make Planning Research Rigorous Again!" Our goal is to make LLM-based planning research more reproducible, better grounded, and more meaningfully evaluated by building on decades of insights from the planning community
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2026
ACPBench Hard Accepted to ICLR 2026! - Our paper on challenging benchmarks for action, change, and planning accepted. Read the blog post
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2026
ICAPS 2026 Summer School Lecturer - Selected to lecture at the ICAPS 2026 Summer School
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2025
NeurIPS 2025 Tutorial - Delivered tutorial on Planning in the era of language models
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2026
AAAI 2026 Tutorial & Lab Forum Co-Chair - Serving as co-chair for AAAI 2026
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2024
Thought of Search (ToS) Published! - Our paper accepted to NeurIPS 2024. Check out the blog post and media coverage in VentureBeat
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2025
LLM4Plan Workshop Series - Co-creator and organizer of workshops at AAAI 2025 and ICAPS 2025
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2024
ACPBench Released! - New benchmark for reasoning about action, change, and planning. Read the blog post
Research Focus
Advancing AI through automated planning and language models
AI Planning & LLMs
Developing reliable and efficient methods for planning with large language models. Recent work includes Thought of Search (ToS) and AutoToS for automated planning.
Automated Planning
Classical planning, heuristic search, abstraction techniques, and structural patterns. Winner of IPC 2018 cost-optimal track with Delfi planner.
Planning & RL Integration
Bridging automated planning and reinforcement learning techniques for autonomous systems. Co-creator of the PRL workshop series.
Awards & Recognition
Honors and achievements in AI research
Test-of-Time Award for pioneering work that established the core theoretical foundations underlying most goal-distance estimates used in cost-optimal planning today
Winner 2018 (Delfi planner, cost-optimal track)
Runner-up 2014 (Mercury planner, satisficing track)
Implicit Abstraction Heuristics for Cost-Optimal Planning
Mercury planner innovation award
Multiple gold, silver, and bronze medals
Winner and runner-up
Research Impact
100+
Publications
In top AI conferences and journals
25+
Patents
Granted and published
10+
Major Awards
Including ICAPS and IPC honors
Featured Publications
Recent impactful research
Thought of Search
Thought of Search: Planning with Language Models Through The Lens of Efficiency
NeurIPS 2024
Automating Thought of Search: A Journey Towards Soundness and Completeness
ICAPS 2026
ACPBench
ACPBench: Reasoning About Action, Change, and Planning
AAAI 2025
ACPBench Hard: Challenging Benchmarks for Reasoning About Action, Change, and Planning
ICLR 2026