Hamid Osooli
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hi! I’m a third-year PhD candidate in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Huy Tran. I’m excited about multi-agent coordination and planning for the teams of agents/robots. My work seeks to address the coordination issue in multi-agent reinforcement learning using tools such as game theory, mechanism design, and credit assignment. I employ these tools to enable robots to learn either in real time or through pre-trained policies.
In summer and fall of 2025, I was a research intern at InstaDeep, where I applied reinforcement learning to weak-to-strong alignment in LLMs.
Before joining UIUC, I completed my M.Sc. in Computer Science at UMass Lowell, where I worked at the PeARL Lab and the NERVE Center, advised by Prof. Reza Azadeh, on multi-agent deep reinforcement learning, optimization and planning, machine learning modeling and sensor fusion, and robot design.
At UML I also joined the University Choir group and had the chance to perform with Cambridge Symphony Orchestra and Nashoba Valley Chorale at MIT Kresge Auditorium. Outside research, I enjoy singing, hiking, fitness, cooking, and ice cream.
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| Dec 19, 2025 | One paper I co-authored is accepted at The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026), Paphos, Cyprus |
| Sep 9, 2025 | I passed my Ph.D. qualifying exam |
| Jun 9, 2025 | I joined InstaDeep as a Research Intern at San Francisco, CA |
| Aug 28, 2024 | The paper from our collaboration with K-12 students, was accepted in sensors journal (Special Issue : Feature Papers in Intelligent Sensors 2024) |
| Aug 19, 2024 | I started my PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL |
| Jul 18, 2024 | I defended my MSc thesis at UMass Lowell |
| Jul 08, 2024 | Our poster was an award finalist in Ubiquitous Robots (UR) 2024 |
| Apr 04, 2024 | Two papers accepted at Ubiquitous Robots (UR) 2024, New York, NY |
| Sep 21, 2023 | One paper accepted at International Symposium on Multi-Robot & Multi-Agent Systems (MRS 2023), Boston, MA |
| Aug 30, 2023 | One paper accepted at IROS workshop: Advances in Multi-Agent Learning - Coordination, Perception, and Control, Detroit, MI |
| Apr 14, 2023 | One paper accepted at Ubiquitous Robots (UR) 2023, Honolulu, HI |
| Oct 8, 2022 | I presented a poster regarding my research at NERC 2022 (Linkedin post), Lowell, MA |
| Aug 7, 2021 | I joined Pearl lab at Umass Lowell as a graduate student |
| May 15, 2021 | Robotic Ophtalmotrope was appreciated as a praiseworthy initiative in Khayyam International Invention/Innovation Festival |