Katia Sycara
Edward Fredkin Research Professor / Associate Director of Faculty
Studies multi-robot coordination and human-robot teaming.
Katia Sycara's lab at CMU works on human-robot interaction & assistive robots and planning, control & multi-robot systems. 53 papers since 2023, 30 at top venues, mostly NeurIPS and AAMAS. 4 PhD students. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 14/ year
- at T1 venues
- 57%
- PhD students
- 4
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- —
Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 9 papers2026 · T1 6 · collecting
- 14 papers2025 · T1 9
- 13 papers2024 · T1 8
- 17 papers2023 · T1 7
T1 venuesOtherVenues: NeurIPS, AAMAS, ICRA, ICLR, Autonomous Robots
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems18 papers
- Human-robot interaction & assistive robots12 papers
- coordination1 paper
- teaming1 paper
- human-robot teaming0 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
20269 papers
- GECCO CompanionAlgorithmic Prompt Generation for Diverse Human-like Teaming and Communication with Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- AAMAS (T1)B3C: A Minimalist Approach to Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (opens in a new tab)
- Trans. Mach. Learn. Res.Disentangled Concept-Residual Models: Bridging the Interpretability-Performance Gap for Incomplete Concept Sets (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)Evolving Contextual Safety in Multi-Modal Large Language Models via Inference-Time Self-Reflective Memory (opens in a new tab)
- AAMAS (T1)InteractFormer: Inter-Agent Spatiotemporal Attention for Multi-Agent Action Anticipation (opens in a new tab)
- ECCV (T1)LENS: Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Zooming for Keyframe Sampling in Long-Form Videos (opens in a new tab)
- Autonomous RobotsMulti-robot navigation in social mini-games: definitions, taxonomy, and algorithms (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)pySpatial: Generating 3D Visual Programs for Zero-Shot Spatial Reasoning (opens in a new tab)
- AAMAS (T1)Theory of Mind Guided Strategy Adaptation for Zero-Shot Coordination (opens in a new tab)
202514 papers
- NeurIPS (T1)Adaptively Coordinating with Novel Partners via Learned Latent Strategies (opens in a new tab)
- CASEAligning LLM+PDDL Symbolic Plans with Human Objective Specifications through Evolutionary Algorithm Guidance (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Distributed Multi-Robot Source Seeking in Unknown Environments with Unknown Number of Sources (opens in a new tab)
- WACVEnhancing Vision-Language Few-Shot Adaptation with Negative Learning (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Fair Cooperation in Mixed-Motive Games via Conflict-Aware Gradient Adjustment (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)InstructPart: Task-Oriented Part Segmentation with Instruction Reasoning (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Integrating Multi-Robot Adaptive Sampling and Informative Path Planning for Spatiotemporal Natural Environment Prediction (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)MapEx: Indoor Structure Exploration with Probabilistic Information Gain from Global Map Predictions (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)OMG: Opacity Matters in Material Modeling with Gaussian Splatting (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV (T1)ONLY: One-Layer Intervention Sufficiently Mitigates Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- Autonomous RobotsReconfigurable robot swarms for terrain traversal with passive coupling mechanisms (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Self-Correcting Decoding with Generative Feedback for Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models (opens in a new tab)
202413 papers
- CoLLAsAdaptive Action Advising with Different Rewards (opens in a new tab)
- ICHMSCBGT-Net: A Neuromimetic Architecture for Robust Classification of Streaming Data (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Dual Prototype Evolving for Test-Time Generalization of Vision-Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)GL-NeRF: Gauss-Laguerre Quadrature Enables Training-Free NeRF Acceleration (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)HiKER-SGG: Hierarchical Knowledge Enhanced Robust Scene Graph Generation (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Language Grounded Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning with Human-interpretable Communication (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.Let Me Help You! Neuro-Symbolic Short-Context Action Anticipation (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)LogiCity: Advancing Neuro-Symbolic AI with Abstract Urban Simulation (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Map It Anywhere: Empowering BEV Map Prediction using Large-scale Public Datasets (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPNavigating Noisy Feedback: Enhancing Reinforcement Learning with Error-Prone Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- AAMAS (T1)Optimal Task Assignment and Path Planning using Conflict-Based Search with Precedence and Temporal Constraints (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)ShapeGrasp: Zero-Shot Task-Oriented Grasping with Large Language Models through Geometric Decomposition (opens in a new tab)
202317 papers
- Comput. Hum. Behav."Do what you say?" The combined effects of framed social intent and autonomous agent behavior on the trust process (opens in a new tab)
- SMCA Framework for Intervention Based Team Support in Time Critical Tasks (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Characterizing Out-of-Distribution Error via Optimal Transport (opens in a new tab)
- AAMAS (T1)Emergent Compositional Concept Communication through Mutual Information in Multi-Agent Teams (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Explainable Action Advising for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Cogn. Dev. Syst.Interpretable Learned Emergent Communication for Human-Agent Teams (opens in a new tab)
- CoLLAsIntrospective Action Advising for Interpretable Transfer Learning (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPLong-Horizon Dialogue Understanding for Role Identification in the Game of Avalon with Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- EPIAMulti-robot Adaptive Sampling for Supervised Spatiotemporal Forecasting (opens in a new tab)
- SMCPersonalized Decision Supports based on Theory of Mind Modeling and Explainable Reinforcement Learning (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)Reconfigurable Robot Control Using Flexible Coupling Mechanisms (opens in a new tab)
- CoLLAsSample-Efficient Learning of Novel Visual Concepts (opens in a new tab)
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Apply to CMUFall 2027
CMU SCS Computer Science PhD
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- Opens
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- TOEFL / IELTS / Duolingo (F-1/J-1 non-native speakers)
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- USD 100 (USD 80 by early deadline)
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