Publications

Journal Papers

Under Review

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

Conference Papers

2025

• Dynamic Coalition Structure Detection in Natural-Language-based Interactions
  Abhishek N. Kulkarni, Andy Liu, Jean-Raphael Gaglione, Daniel Fried and Ufuk Topcu
  International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2025.

• Sequential Decision Making in Stochastic Games with Incomplete Preferences over Temporal Objectives
  Abhishek N. Kulkarni, Jie Fu and Ufuk Topcu
  Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference (AAAI), 2025.
  [PDF]

2024

• Defining and Measuring Deception in Sequential Decision Systems: Application to Network Defense
  Yerin Kim, Alexander Benvenuti, Bo Chen, Mustafa Karabag, Abhishek Kulkarni, Nathaniel D Bastian, Ufuk Topcu, Matthew Hale
  IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2024.
  [PDF]

• 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.
  [PDF]

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]

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]

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

• Sequential Decision Making in Games with Incomplete Information
  [Reformatted PDF] [Original PDF]

Technical/Project Reports

2024

• 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
  [PDF]

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]