Anna Gautier

Chalmers Univeristy of Technology. Assistant Professor.

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Div. of Data Science and AI

Department of Computer Science

Chalmers University of Technology

Gothenburg, Sweden

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Chalmers University of Technology. I am affiliated with the Division of Data Science and AI. My research interests center around planning and decision making in multi-agent systems. I often consider planning under uncertainty (e.g., MDPs, MMDPs, CMMDPs) and game theory and mechanism design (e.g., auctions). I am particularly interested application to multi-robot systems and mixed, human-and-robot systems.

Prior to joining Chalmers, I was a Digital Futures Postdoctoral Fellow at KTH Royal Institute of Technology where I worked with Jana Tumova in the Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning. I was affiliated with the WASP-Nest Project on Perceiving and Communicating Correct-by-Design Sociably Acceptable Autonomous Systems (PerCorSo) and the Vinnova Center on Trustworthy Edge Computing Systems and Applications (TECoSA).

I received my PhD from the University of Oxford in 2023. My thesis was entitled “Resource Allocation for Constrained Multi-Agent Systems” and was supervised by Nick Hawes and Michael Wooldridge. Prior to that, I received my MSc in Applied Mathematics from the London School of Economics. I received my BA in Mathematics and my BS in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis.

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news

Apr 01, 2025 I am thrilled to announce that I have joined Chalmers University of Technology! I have been appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Data Science and AI division.
Feb 28, 2025 Our paper “Take a Chance on Me: How Robot Performance and Risk Behaviour Affects Trust and Risk-Taking” will be presented at HRI 2025 in Melbourne, Australia this week.
Jan 20, 2025 I am co-chairing the ECAI 2025 Demonstration Track. Join us in Bologna, Italy in October! The deadline for demo papers is May 20th.
Oct 30, 2024 I will be giving a talk at AISoLA 2024 in the Verification and Learning for Assured Autonomy track, on “Mechanism Design for Multi-Agent Planning in Robotics.”
Sep 01, 2024 I attended Dagstuhl Seminar 24361 on "Artificial Intelligence and Formal Methods Join Forces for Reliable Autonomy."

selected publications

  1. AAMAS
    Risk-Constrained Planning for Multi-Agent Systems with Shared Resources
    Anna Gautier, Marc Rigter, Bruno Lacerda, Nick Hawes, and Michael Wooldridge
    In Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems , 2023
  2. AAAI
    Multi-unit auctions for allocating chance-constrained resources
    Anna Gautier, Bruno Lacerda, Nick Hawes, and Michael Wooldridge
    In Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence , 2023
  3. AAMAS
    Negotiated Path Planning for Non-Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems
    Anna Gautier, Alex Stephens, Bruno Lacerda, Nick Hawes, and Michael Wooldridge
    In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems , 2022