Publications

Conference Papers

Risk-Bounded multi-agent navigation depiction

Risk-Bounded Multi-Agent Visual Navigation via Iterative Risk Allocation

Viraj Parimi, Brian Williams

Published in ICAPS, 2026

Also presented at ICAPS Workshop on Bridging the Gap Between AI Planning and Reinforcement Learning (Oral) ; CoRL Workshop on Safe and Robust Learning for Operation in the Real World

Dynamic CBS risk budgeting lets visual multi-agent teams push through higher-risk corridors when it pays off, delivering faster, collision-free plans while still honoring the user’s $\Delta$ constraint.

Safe multi-agent navigation depiction

Safe Multi-Agent Navigation guided by Goal-Conditioned Safe Reinforcement Learning

Meng Feng*, Viraj Parimi*, Brian C. Williams

Published in ICRA, 2025

Also presented at NeurIPS Workshop on Intrinsically Motivated Open-Ended Learning ; CoRL Workshop on Learning Effective Abstractions for Planning

Unified conflict-based search with goal-conditioned safe RL to plan long-horizon multi-agent navigation that stays safe without sacrificing efficiency.

Journal Articles

Transit planning analytics

Hierarchical Bayesian Framework for Bus Dwell Time Prediction

Isaac K. Isukapati, Conor Igoe, Eli Bronstein, Viraj Parimi, Stephen F. Smith

Published in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2020

Derived a hierarchical Bayesian model that learns accurate bus dwell-time distributions from sparse data, enabling reliable arrival predictions for signal priority systems.

Workshops & Symposia

Book Chapters

Complex network visualization

On the Vulnerability of Community Structure in Complex Networks

Viraj Parimi, Arindam Pal, Sushmita Raj, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Tanmoy Chakraborty

Published in Principles of Social Networking, Springer, 2021

Analyzed how targeted node and edge removals disrupt community structure, introducing heuristics that stay near-optimal even on large-scale social graphs.

Miscellaneous