OPTIMA is the research lab led by Anna Gautier in the Data and AI Division of the Department of Computer Science at Chalmers University of Technology. The lab’s research centers around planning and decision making in multi-agent systems with complex, real-world objectives, with applications to multi-robot systems, intelligent transport, and AI-based agentic systems.
OPTIMA members
Anna Gautier
Assistant Professor
Kinga Jenei
Industrial PhD Student
Co-supervised by Jiazhen He
Reza Rezvan
PhD Student
Rebecka Winqvist
PhD Student at KTH
Co-supervised with Jana Tumova
current projects
Towards multi-agent based AI collaborators for drug discovery
Causal theory-of-mind for safer multi-agent transport systems (CausToMS)
past master's students
- Eyob Embaye, MSc in Data Science and AI, 2026
- Johan Duan, MSc in Algorithms, Languages and Logic at Chalmers, 2026
- Xi Cheng, MSc in Complex Adaptive Systems, 2026
- Tommaso Piehl, MSc at KTH with Ericsson, 2024
news
| Jun 22, 2026 | Reza Rezvan has joined OPTIMA as a PhD Student. |
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| Jun 02, 2026 | Xi Cheng has defended his Master’s thesis on “Risk-aware safety in multi-agent systems.” |
| Jun 01, 2026 | Eyob Embaye and Johan Duan have defended their Master’s thesis on “Safe multi-robot planning via long-run averages.” |
| Feb 02, 2026 | Kinga Jenei has joined OPTIMA as a WASP Industrial PhD student with AstraZeneca. |
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