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Paper titled “Preemptive Multiple Robot Coalition Reformation” accepted at DARS 2026.
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Selected as a Future Leader of AI at the ACM AI Leadership Summit 2026.
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Recipient of the AAMAS 2026 Student Scholarship.
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Selected for the Doctoral Consortium at AAMAS 2026.
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Paper titled “Extremely Large Collective Coalition Formation: Scalability” accepted at AAMAS 2026.
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Successfully completed my Ph.D. Preliminary Examination!
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Paper titled “Leader-Based Coalition Formation for Extremely Large Scale Collectives” received the Best Paper Award at IEEE CAI 2025.
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Successfully completed my Ph.D. Qualifying Examination!
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Late Breaking Report titled “Decision Support System for Autonomous Underwater Robot Grasping” accepted at ACM/IEEE HRI 2023
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publications
Preliminary design and performance test of tendon-driven origami-inspired soft peristaltic robot
Published in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2018
A preliminary design and performance evaluation of a tendon-driven origami-inspired soft peristaltic robot.
Recommended citation: Hritwick Banerjee*, Neha Pusalkar*, and Hongliang Ren. Preliminary design and performance test of tendon-driven origami-inspired soft peristaltic robot. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 1214-1219, 2018.
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Single-motor controlled tendon-driven peristaltic soft origami robot
Published in Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 2018
A novel soft origami robot design that uses a single motor to control tendon-driven peristaltic motion for locomotion.
Recommended citation: Hritwick Banerjee, Neha Pusalkar, and Hongliang Ren. Single-motor controlled tendon-driven peristaltic soft origami robot. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 10(6), 064501.
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Path loss exponent estimation for wireless sensor node positioning: Practical approach
Published in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), 2018
A practical approach for estimating path loss exponent in wireless sensor networks for improved node positioning accuracy.
Recommended citation: Vaishnavi Dharmadhikari, Neha Pusalkar, and Pradnya Ghare. Path loss exponent estimation for wireless sensor node positioning: Practical approach. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), 1-4.
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Robot Task Planning for Low Entropy Belief States
Published in CoRR, 2020
A novel approach for robot task planning in low entropy belief states.
Recommended citation: Alphonsus Adu-Bredu, Zhen Zeng, Neha Pusalkar, and Odest Chadwicke Jenkins. Robot Task Planning for Low Entropy Belief States. CoRR, 2020.
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Elephants don’t pack groceries: robot task planning for low entropy belief states
Published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021
A novel approach for robot task planning in low entropy belief states, exploring the challenges of grocery packing tasks.
Recommended citation: Alphonsus Adu-Bredu, Zhen Zeng, Neha Pusalkar, and Odest Chadwicke Jenkins. Elephants don't pack groceries: robot task planning for low entropy belief states. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(1), 25-32, 2021.
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Angle-Regulated Transformer Network for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction
Published in IJCAI '21 Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Driving Workshop (AI4AD '21), 2021
Angle-regulated transformer network for pedestrian trajectory prediction.
Recommended citation: Xiaoxiao Du, Neha Pusalkar, Ram Vasudevan, and M Johnson-Roberson. Angle-Regulated Transformer Network for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction. IJCAI '21 Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Driving Workshop (AI4AD '21), 2021.
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Autonomous Underwater Robot Grasping Decision Support System
Published in Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023
A decision support system for autonomous underwater robot grasping, focusing on human-robot interaction.
Recommended citation: Neha G Pusalkar and Mark-Robin Giolando and Julie A Adams. Autonomous Underwater Robot Grasping Decision Support System. Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 887-888, 2023.
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Decision support system for autonomous underwater robot grasping
Published in Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023
A decision support system for autonomous underwater robot grasping in human-robot interaction scenarios.
Recommended citation: Neha G Pusalkar, Mark-Robin Giolando, and Julie A Adams. Decision support system for autonomous underwater robot grasping. Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 198-202, 2023.
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Leader-Based Coalition Formation for Extremely Large Scale Collectives
Published in 2025 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) (Acceptance Rate: 34%), 2025
A novel approach for coalition formation in extremely large scale collectives using leader-based strategies.
Recommended citation: Neha G Pusalkar and Julie A Adams. Leader-Based Coalition Formation for Extremely Large Scale Collectives. 2025 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) (Acceptance Rate: 34%), 2025.
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Paper Title Number 5
Published in , 2025
title: “Paper Title Number 5, with math \(E=mc^2\)”
collection: publications
category: conferences
permalink: /publication/2024-02-17-paper-title-number-4
excerpt: ‘This paper is about a famous math equation, \(E=mc^2\)’
date: 2024-02-17
venue: ‘GitHub Journal of Bugs’
paperurl: ‘http://academicpages.github.io/files/paper3.pdf’
citation: ‘Your Name, You. (2024). "Paper Title Number 3." GitHub Journal of Bugs. 1(3).’
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Extremely Large Collective Coalition Formation: Scalability
Published in 2026 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS) (Acceptance Rate: 25%), 2026
Leader-level hedonic game for coalition formation: LN-GRAPE-S
Recommended citation: Neha G Pusalkar and Julie A Adams. Extremely Large Collective Coalition Formation: Scalability. 2026 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS) (Acceptance Rate: 25%), 2026.
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Preemptive Multiple Robot Coalition Reformation
Published in 2026 International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), 2026
Recommended citation: Neha G Pusalkar and Julie A Adams. Preemptive Multiple Robot Coalition Reformation. 2026 International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), 2026.
talks
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teaching
Teaching experience 1
Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014
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Teaching experience 2
Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015
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