Matthew Gombolay
Associate Professor
Researches human-robot interaction, explainable AI and multi-agent reinforcement learning for human-robot teaming.
Matthew Gombolay's lab at Georgia Tech works on human-robot interaction & assistive robots, planning, control & multi-robot systems and reinforcement learning. 72 papers since 2023, 4 at top venues, mostly HRI and Autonomous Robots. 14 PhD students. 18 alumni, most often to Toyota Research Institute and Ford Motor Company. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 19/ year
- at T1 venues
- 6%
- PhD students
- 14
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 18
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 4 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 18 papers2025 · T1 0
- 27 papers2024 · T1 3
- 23 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: HRI, Autonomous Robots, Findings of EMNLP, IJCAI, IROS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems32 papers
- Reinforcement learning29 papers
- Human-robot interaction & assistive robots23 papers
- human-robot6 papers
- human-robot teaming2 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20264 papers
- International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS).Heterogeneous Graph Conditioned Diffusion for Diverse Multi-Agent Teaming
- Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS).Interactive Knowledge Distillation with Adaptive Teachers in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- Autonomous RobotsPERSCO: Perceived Safe Control of Mobile Robots in Human Groups with Active Learning
- International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).Teaching the Teacher: Live Foundation Model and Augmented Reality Feedback for Human-to-Robot Skill Transfer
202518 papers
- —Better Than Diverse Demonstrators: Reward Decomposition From Suboptimal and Heterogeneous Demonstrations (opens in a new tab)
- —Compositional Instruction Following with Language Models and Reinforcement Learning (opens in a new tab)
- —Deep Domain Adaptation Eliminates Costly Data Required for Task-Agnostic Wearable Robotic Control (opens in a new tab)
- —Delivery of Oxygen during Cardiopulmonary Bypass and Associated Clinical Outcomes among Adult Cardiac Surgery Patients: A Systematic Review (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).ELEMENTAL: Interactive Learning from Demonstrations and Vision-Language Models for Interpretable Reward Design in Robotics (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).Generalized Behavior Learning from Diverse Demonstrations (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).Generating CAD Code with Vision-Language Models for 3D Designs (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).Heterogeneous Graph Transformers for Simultaneous Mobile Multi-Agent Task Allocation and Scheduling under Temporal Constraints (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).Learning Diverse Robot Striking Motions with Diffusion Models and Kinematically Constrained Gradient Guidance (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).Learning Dynamics of a Ball with Differentiable Factor Graph and Roto-Translational Invariant Representations (opens in a new tab)
- Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS).Learning Interpretable Features from Interventions (opens in a new tab)
- —Learning Multi-Agent Coordination for Replenishment At Sea (opens in a new tab)
202427 papers
- —A Clinician-Centered Explainable Artificial Intelligence Framework for Decision Support in the Operating Theatre (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI Fall Symposium Series on AI for Aging in Place.Better Apprenticeship Learning with LLM Explanations (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).CrossLoco: Human Motion Driven Control of Legged Robots via Guided Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning (opens in a new tab)
- —Deep Learning Analysis of Surgical Video Recordings to Assess Nontechnical Skills (opens in a new tab)
- The Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).Designs for Enabling Collaboration in Human-Machine Teaming via Interactive and Explainable Systems (opens in a new tab)
- Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS).Developing Design Guidelines for Older Adults with Robot Learning from Demonstration (opens in a new tab)
- —Editorial: Decision-Making and Planning for Multi-Agent Systems (opens in a new tab)
- —Effects of Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Neurology Decision Support (opens in a new tab)
- The IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).Efficient Trajectory Forecasting and Generation with Conditional Flow Matching (opens in a new tab)
- HRI (T1)Enhancing Safety in Learning from Demonstration Algorithms via Control Barrier Function Shielding (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI Fall Symposium Series on AI for Aging in Place.Ethics of Paternalistic Robots in the Care of Older Adults
- —Heterogeneous Policy Networks for Composite Robot Team Communication and Coordination (opens in a new tab)
202323 papers
- Findings of EMNLPA Computational Interface to Translate Strategic Intent from Unstructured Language in a Low-Data Setting (opens in a new tab)
- MRSAdversarial Search and Tracking with Multiagent Reinforcement Learning in Sparsely Observable Environment (opens in a new tab)
- —Athletic Mobile Manipulator System for Robotic Wheelchair Tennis (opens in a new tab)
- —Coordinating Team Tactics for Swarm-vs.-Swarm Adversarial Games (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA WorkshopDesign of Human-Aware Robotic Decision Support Systems (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL).DROID: Learning from Offline Heterogeneous Demonstrations via Reward-Policy Distillation (opens in a new tab)
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference (AAAI) Doctoral Consortium.Embodied, Intelligent Communication for Multi-Agent Cooperation (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EACLFedPerC: Federated Learning for Language Generation with Personal and Context Preference Embeddings (opens in a new tab)
- —From Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Intelligence Augmentation (IA): Design Principles, Potential Risks, and Emerging Issues (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL).Hijacking Robot Teams Through Adversarial Communication (opens in a new tab)
- —Human-Robot Teaming: Grand Challenges (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).Impacts of Robot Learning on User Attitude and Behavior (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went18 listed, 50% to industry
Industry 5Academia 5
Most often to
- Toyota Research Institute
- Ford Motor Company
- RIOS Corporation
Also to
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Georgia Tech
- MIT
Apply to Georgia TechFall 2027
Georgia Tech Computer Science PhD
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