Dr. Sarra Alqahtani Received a Prestigious 5-year NSF CAREER Award!

A huge congrats to Dr. Sarra Alqahtani who has received a prestigious 5-year National Science Foundation CAREER grant for her research on “Safety-Centered Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Algorithms, Testing Tools, and Benchmarks”!

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) lets multiple autonomous systems, such as UAVs, learn to perform and collaborate on complex tasks. As these systems interact in unpredictable environments, unexpected behaviors can arise, raising safety and reliability concerns. This project aims to make MARL systems safer by developing new algorithms, testing tools, certification methods, and benchmarks to ensure they perform reliably even in challenging or compromised conditions. It also includes educational efforts to train the next generation of AI researchers to develop safer, more trustworthy AI systems.

See award info here.

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