Latest News & Highlights
Recent achievements and activities
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Jun 2026 🏆 ICAPS Influential Paper Award! - Received ICAPS Influential Paper Award (test-of-time award) for our ICAPS 2013 paper "Who Said We Need to Relax All Variables?" with Jörg Hoffmann and Carmel Domshlak
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Apr 2026 LLM4Plan Workshop Series - LM4Plan workshops is at ICAPS 2026!
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Apr 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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Mar 2026 LLM4Plan Workshop Series - LM4Plan workshops comes to ICML 2026!
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Jan 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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Jan 2026 ICAPS 2026 Summer School Lecturer - Selected to lecture at the ICAPS 2026 Summer School
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Dec 2025 NeurIPS 2025 Tutorial - Delivered tutorial on Planning in the era of language models
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2025 AAAI 2026 Tutorial & Lab Forum Co-Chair - Serving as co-chair for AAAI 2026
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2025 LLM4Plan Workshop Series - LM4Plan workshops is at ICAPS 2025
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2025 LLM4Plan Workshop Series - LM4Plan workshops is at AAAI 2025
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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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2024 ACPBench Released! - New benchmark for reasoning about action, change, and planning. Read the blog post
Research Focus
Advancing AI through efficient and reliable automated planning & language models
AI Planning & LLMs
Developing reliable and efficient methods for planning with large language models. Recent work includes search components generation, planning models generation, and generalized policy generation. Creator of the LM4Plan workshop series.
Automated Planning
Classical planning as heuristic search, goal-distance estimates & search pruning, multiple test-of-time award-winning contributions. Generating multiple solutions for classical planning. Creator of award-winning planners.
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 introduced the Red-Black Planning paradigm, a principled method for goal-distance estimates used in satisficing planners today
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
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