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Vishal Pallagani

Vishal is currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Carolina. He is a part of the Artificial Intelligence Institute of UofSC (AIISC) research lab. Vishal is jointly mentored by Dr. Biplav Srivastava and Dr. Amit Sheth. He received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 2020 at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Naya Raipur in India.

Vishal's research interests lie in the intersection of Natural Language Processing and Automated Planning. In his previous internship at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York, he worked with an interdisciplinary team on creating Plansformer, a large language model capable of generating valid and cost-optimal symbolic plans. He is also interested in human cognitive theories and understanding their relevance in Computer Science research.

News

• Sep 2022 Accepted a return internship offer as a Research Scientist (Intern) - Exploratory Science at IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, USA.
• August 2022 Attended the IBM Neuro-Symbolic AI Summer School 2022!
• May 2022 Starting my Summer Internship at IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, USA as a Research Scientist (Intern) in Exploratory Science.
• May 2022 Paper accepted for the Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS 2022), co-located with ICAPS 2022
• Aug 2021 Demo ([Paper] [Video]) accepted at ICAPS 2021
• Aug 2021 Paper accepted in Bridging the Gap Between AI Planning and Reinforcement Learning (PRL) workshop at ICAPS 2021
• Jan 2021 Joined UofSC as a Ph.D. student!

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