His research interests include planning and decision making under uncertainty with a focus on multiagent systems and urban-system optimization. Kumar received a PhD in computer science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His thesis received best dissertation award at the 2014 International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). His work has also received the outstanding application paper award at ICAPS 2014 and the best paper award in the 2017 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Artificial Intelligence’s computational sustainability track. Contact him at akshatkumar@smu.edu.sg.