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 KTH, 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

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."
Jun 14, 2024 This week we hosted the 2024 Robotics, Peception and Learning Summer School. It was such a joy to be on the organizing committee. Thanks to everyone who participated!

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