Feb 2025. Preprint: We show that regularized self-play RL can effectively adapt policies to new cities, without using human demonstrations! 

Feb 2026. Blog: How to think about human-likeness in the age of autonomy. 

Dec 2025. Release: We released PufferDrive 2.0! Train driving agents from scratch in 15 minutes and drive with them, too.

Oct 2025. Blog: How to catch subtle RL bugs before they catch you.

Oct 2025. Blog: Human behavior modeling in naturalistic driving: Trends and opportunities.

Jul 2025. Talk: Gave a talk at Waymo on guided self-play.

May-Aug. Internship: Spent the summer interning at Waymo's safety research team.

Apr 2025. Fellowship: I was selected as a Chishiki AI Fellow (funded by NSF). 

Mar 2025. Talk: Gave an invited talk at the AI and Social Good Lab (AISOC) at CMU.

Jan 2025. Workshop: I am co-organizing the workshop on Computational Models of Human Road User Behavior for Autonomous Vehicles at IEEE IAVVC.

Jan 2025. Fellowship: I'm honored to have been awarded the 2025 PhD Cooperative AI Fellowship!

Oct 2024. Talk: Gave an invited talk on HR-PPO and GPUDrive at the RL reading group at UoE! You can watch the recording here.

May 2024. Paper: Human-compatible driving partners through data-regularized self-play reinforcement learning was accepted to RLC 2024. 

Apr  2024. Talk: Gave an invited talk on Human-Regularized PPO at the Berkeley Multiagent Learning Seminar! The slides are here.

Sep 2023. Started my Ph.D. at NYU with the EMERGE Lab!