Publications

Journal Papers

Under Review

  • Integrated Resource Allocation and Strategy Synthesis in Safety Games on Graphs with Deception
    Abhishek N. Kulkarni, Matthew S. Cohen, Charles A. Kamhoua, and Jie Fu
    Aritificial Intelligence Journal

  • Preference-Based Planning in Stochastic Environments: From Partially-Ordered Temporal Goals to Most Preferred Policies
    Hazhar Rahmani, Abhishek N Kulkarni, and Jie Fu
    International Journal of Robotics Research
    [PDF]

2022

  • Dynamic Hypergames for Synthesis of Deceptive Strategies with Temporal Logic Objectives.
    Lening Li, Haoxiang Ma, Abhishek N. Kulkarni, Jie Fu
    IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE).
    [PDF]

  • Synthesizing Attack-Aware Control and Active Sensing Strategies under Reactive Sensor Attacks. [Accepted]
    Sumukha Udupa, Abhishek N. Kulkarni, Shuo Han, Nandi O. Leslie, Charles A. Kamhoua, and Jie Fu
    IEEE Control System Letters (L-CSS).
    [PDF]

2020

  • Deceptive Labeling: Hypergames on Graphs for Stealthy Deception
    Abhishek N. Kulkarni, Huan Luo, Nandi O. Leslie, Charles A. Kamhoua, Jie Fu,
    IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS) 2020.
    [PDF]

Book Chapters

2021

  • A Theory of Hypergames on Graphs for Synthesizing Dynamic Cyber Defense with Deception.
    Abhishek N. Kulkarni and Jie Fu
    Book: Game Theory and Machine Learning for Cyber Security, Wiley-IEEE Press.
    [Book] [PDF]

Conference Papers

2024

  • Logical Specifications-guided Dynamic Task Sampling for Reinforcement Learning Agents
    Yash Shukla, Tanushree Burman, Abhishek Kulkarni, Robert Wright, Alvaro Velasquez, and Jivko Sinapov
    International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2024.

2023

  • Opportunistic Qualitative Planning in Stochastic Systems with Incomplete Preferences over Reachability Objectives
    Abhishek N. Kulkarni and Jie Fu
    IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), 2023.
    [PDF]

  • Synthesis of Opacity-Enforcing Winning Strategies Against Colluded Opponent
    Chongyang Shi, Abhishek N. Kulkarni, Hazhar Rahmani, and Jie Fu
    IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2023.
    [PDF]

  • Probabilistic Planning with Partially Ordered Preferences over Temporal Goals
    Hazhar Rahmani, Abhishek N. Kulkarni and Jie Fu
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023.
    [PDF]

  • Automaton-guided Curriculum Generation for Reinforcement Learning Agents
    Yash Shukla, Abhishek Kulkarni, Robert Wright, Alvaro Velasquez and Jivko Sinapov
    International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2023.
    [PDF]

2021

  • Qualitative Planning in Imperfect Information Games with Active Sensing and Reactive Sensor Attacks: Cost of Unawareness.
    Abhishek N. Kulkarni, Shuo Han, Nandi O. Leslie, Charles A. Kamhoua and Jie Fu
    IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2021.
    [PDF]

2020

  • Decoy Placement Games on Graphs with Temporal Logic Objectives
    Abhishek N. Kulkarni, Jie Fu, Huan Luo, Charles A. Kamhoua, Nandi O. Leslie,
    Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec) 2020.
    [PDF]

  • Synthesis of Deceptive Strategies in Reachability Games with Action Misperception
    Abhishek N. Kulkarni and Jie Fu,
    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2020.
    [PDF]

2019

  • Opportunistic Synthesis in Reactive Games under Information Asymmetry
    Abhishek N. Kulkarni and Jie Fu
    Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2019.
    [PDF]

2018

  • A Compositional Approach to Reactive Games under Temporal Logic Specifications
    Abhishek N. Kulkarni and Jie Fu
    IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), 2018.
    [PDF]

2015

  • Dot matrix text recognition for industrial carton classification
    Siddharth Nitin Patki, Madhuri Joshi and Abhishek N. Kulkarni
    International Conference on Industrial Instrumentation and Control (ICIC), 2015.
    [IEEEXplore]

2014

  • Big Data Management of a Cyber-Physical Multi-location Chemical Factory
    Abhishek N. Kulkarni, Anita S. Joshi and Satish R. Inamdar
    International Journal of Industrial Electronics and Electrical Engineering (IJIEEE), vol. 2, issue 8, pp. 9-14, Aug. 2014.
    [PDF]

Workshop Papers

2020

  • Synthesis of Deceptive Cyberdefense with Temporal Logic Constraints
    Abhishek N. Kulkarni and Jie Fu,
    Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security (FCS) 2020.
    [PDF]

PhD Thesis

2023

Technical/Project Reports

2021

  • Synthesis of Deceptive Strategies in Reachability Games with Action Misperception
    Abhishek N. Kulkarni and Jie Fu
    [PDF]

2017

  • On Path Planning using Point-based Minkowski Sum for Rigid Robots
    Abhishek N. Kulkarni
    Motion Planning (RBE 550)
    [PDF]