Hi! I'm Raghav Thakar
I'm a Robotics PhD student at the Autonomous Agents and Distributed Intelligence Lab, in the Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute at Oregon State University. I am advised by Dr Kagan Tumer.
I study how autonomous agents learn to perform complex multiagent cooperative tasks that involve multiple simultaneous objectives. My research sits at the intersection of multiagent learning, multi-objective learning, and robotics.
If you would like to talk about research, new ideas, or anything else, please do not hesitate in reaching out: thakarr@oregonstate.edu
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Publications
- The Specificity vs. Expense Trade-Off of Multiagent Credit In The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2025 - Student Workshop · PDF
- Indirect Credit Without a Heuristic for Coevolving Agents In The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2025 - Late-Breaking Abstract · PDF
- Multiagent Credit Assignment for Multi-Objective Coordination In The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2025 · PDF
- Multi-Objective Credit Assignment for Multiagent Systems In The European Conference on Artifical Intelligence (ECAI) 2024 - Multi-Objective Decision Making (MODeM) Workshop · PDF
Updates
- - “Multiagent Credit Assignment for Multi-Objective Coordination” awarded the best poster award at OSU AI Week 2025.
- - “The Specificity vs. Expense Trade-Off of Multiagent Credit” accepted to GECCO 2025 Student Workshop.
- - Late-Breaking Abstract “Indirect Credit Without a Heuristic for Co-evolving Agents” accepted at GECCO 2025.
- - Full paper “Multiagent Credit Assignment for Multi-Objective Coordination” accepted at GECCO 2025.
- - Passed PhD qualifier exam.
- - Started second year of PhD.
- - Workshop paper “Multi-Objective Credit Assignment for Multiagent Systems” accepted at MODeM 2024 @ ECAI 2024.
- - Attended AAMAS 2024 in Auckland, NZ.
- - Started PhD in Robotics at Oregon State University.
Experience
- September 2023 - Present: Graduate Research Assistant, AADI Lab, CoRIS Institute, Oregon State University
- November 2021 - April 2023 (In-person from February 2023): Undergraduate Researcher, Moon Lab, IISER Bhopal
- May 2022 - July 2022: MITACS Research Intern, MARS Lab, Ontario Tech University
- April 2021 - May 2022: Sensing and Automation Head, Project MANAS
- June 2021 - September 2021: Robotics Research Intern, Advanced Technology Division - Aerospace Engineers Pvt. Ltd.