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Saaduddin Mahmud

I am a 2nd-year MS/PhD student under Shlomo Zilberstein at UMass Amherst. My current research focuses on analyzing and debugging autonomous systems for safe deployment. Before starting at UMass, I was a full-time Research Assistant at Cognitive Agents and Interaction Lab (CAIL), University of Dhaka, where I worked on Multi-Agent Systems. During this time, I also worked as a Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology for a while.
You can find my CV here: [CV]

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Grad Publications:

  1. Connor Basich*,Saaduddin Mahmud*, and Shlomo Zilberstein. Learning Constraints on Autonomous Behavior from Proactive Feedback(Under Review).
  2. Saaduddin Mahmud, Sandhya Saisubramanian, and Shlomo Zilberstein. Explanation-Guided Reward Alignment.(Under Review).
  3. Saaduddin Mahmud*, Connor Basich*, and Shlomo Zilberstein. Semi-Autonomous Systems with Contextual Competence Awareness(AAMAS 2023).
  4. Saaduddin Mahmud, Sandhya Saisubramanian, and Shlomo Zilberstein. REVEALE: A Framework for Reward Verification and Learning.(SafeAI @ AAAI-23, Best Paper Award Nomination (Top 4)).
  5. Samer B. Nashed, Saaduddin Mahmud, Claudia V. Goldman, and Shlomo Zilberstein. Causal Explanations for Sequential Decision Making Under Uncertainty(AAMAS 2023 (Ext. Abs.) and Under Review for JAIR). [ARXIV]
  6. Rafid Amir Mahmud, Fahim Faisal, Saaduddin Mahmud, and Md. Mosaddek Khan. A Simulation Based Online Planning Algorithm for Multi-Agent Cooperative Environments. [AAMAS 2022 (Ext. Abs.)] [ARXIV]

Undergrad Publications:

  1. Saaduddin Mahmud, Md. Mosaddek Khan, Moumita Choudhury, Long Tran-Thanh, and Nicholas R. Jennings. Learning Optimal Temperature Region for Solving Mixed Integer Functional DCOPs. In the proceedings of the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2020). [ARXIV] [IJCAI]
  2. Saaduddin Mahmud, Moumita Choudhury, Md. Mosaddek Khan, Long Tran-Thanh, and Nicholas R. Jennings. AED: An Anytime Evolutionary DCOP Algorithm. In the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2020). [ARXIV] [IFAAMAS] [ACM]
  3. Moumita Choudhury, Saaduddin Mahmud, and Md. Mosaddek Khan. A Particle Swarm Based Algorithm for Functional Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems. In the proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020). [AAAI]
  4. Saaduddin Mahmud and Moumita Choudhury (Equal Contribution). Applying Population-Based Algorithms to Solve Large (F)DCOPs. Undergraduate Thesis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University Of Dhaka, 2020.

Softwares:

  1. AL.GO: A project written in java to visualize well known algorithms and help students learn them faster. [Youtube, 2017]
    • Step by step algorithm visualizer.
    • Contains codes, problem links on specific topic to help students learn faster.
  2. MuSyc: An android application for music synchronization across mobile devices. [Github, 2017]
    • Music synchronization across different mobiles.
    • Social-network for sharing music.
  3. EasyML: A web application written in python for automated data visualization and classification. [Github, 2018]
    • Automated data visualization and classification.
    • Fast hyper-parameter optimization for different classifiers.

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