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| Oct 9, 2025 | Our paper “Increasing the Capacity of Shunting Yards within the Current Infrastructure: A Computational Perspective” presented at the Transport Research Arena 2024 is now published with Springer! Co-authored with Sebastijan Dumancic, Mathijs de Weerdt, Paul van der Voort, Roel van den Broek, and Marjan van den Akker. |
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| Sep 10, 2025 | I gave my lecture again on AI Planning for the Probabilistic AI and Reasoning MSc course. |
| Sep 9, 2025 | Eric Kemmeren defended his MSc thesis on Flexibility for Safe Interval Path Planning in the Dutch Railway Networkd. |
| Sep 1, 2025 | I’m on the program committee for the ANSyA workshop at ECAI 2025. |
| Aug 21, 2025 | Pallabi Sree Sarker defended her MSc thesis on Dynamic Macro-Actions in PDDL. |
| Apr 9, 2025 | Last week, I attended the 11th International Conference on Railway Operations Modeling and Analysis 2025, or RailDresden. I presented a poster on our ongoing work applying Multi-Agent Pathfinding to Railway Routing and had many interesting discussions about these algorithms and the complexity of the Train Unit Shunting Problem for passenger trains. |
| Jan 17, 2025 | I presented work by our RAIL Lab at the TU Delft AI & Mobility Day during the Dies Natalis week. |
| Dec 21, 2024 | Nazariy Lonyuk defended his MSc thesis on Train Unit Shunting and Servicing as an Automated Planning problem. |
| Nov 20, 2024 | I attended the BNAIC/BeNeLearn conference in Utrecht, where I presented our paper “Replanning in Advance for Instant Delay Recovery in Multi-Agent Applications: Rerouting Trains in a Railway Hub” again and I also presented ongoing work on generalized landmarks with a poster. Great to see some people again from the local community and also meet some new faces! |
| Sep 23, 2024 | I gave my first lecture on AI planning! |
| Sep 12, 2024 | I attended the AI4RAILS workshop at the Optimization and Decision Science conference, where I presented our paper “Replanning in Advance for Instant Delay Recovery in Multi-Agent Applications: Rerouting Trains in a Railway Hub” again and Mathijs presented our joint work on Multi-Agent Path Finding for Train Shunting. It was a very interesting conference and great to meet so many people working on improving railway operations with AI! |
| Jun 25, 2024 | AI PhD poster day 2024 |
| Jun 6, 2024 | I attended the ICAPS2024 conference and summer school and presented our paper called “Replanning in Advance for Instant Delay Recovery in Multi-Agent Applications: Rerouting Trains in a Railway Hub” written together with Devin Wild Thomas, Wheeler Ruml and Mathijs de Weerdt. |
| Apr 18, 2024 | I attended the Transport Research Arena in Dublin. |
| Feb 12, 2024 | Our paper “Replanning in Advance for Instant Delay Recovery in Multi-Agent Applications: Rerouting Trains in a Railway Hub” together with Devin Wild Thomas, Wheeler Ruml and Mathijs de Weerdt was accepted at the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS24). |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Our paper “Increasing the Capacity of Shunting Yards within the Current Infrastructure: A Computational Perspective” was accepted at the Transport Research Arena for 2024. Co-authored with Sebastijan Dumancic, Mathijs de Weerdt, Paul van der Voort, Roel van den Broek, and Marjan van den Akker. |
| Nov 10, 2023 | The BNAIC conference hosted by TU Delft was a great success, I had a lot fun and learned a lot being part of the great organization team. |
| Jul 21, 2023 | Reuben Gardos Reid defended his MSc thesis on Robust Planning for the Train Unit Shunting Problem. |
| Jul 1, 2023 | I presented our paper “Moving trains like pebbles: a feasibility study on tree yards” at ICAPS in Prague. |
| Jun 16, 2023 | I attended the ProbAI summer school in Trondheim. |
| Jun 9, 2023 | I graduated my conservatory study! |
| Apr 14, 2023 | I gave a talk at the “Neural Causal and Symbolic AI” workshop organized by the TAILOR network. |
| Mar 28, 2023 | The annual Algorithmics’ retreat was a great success! I enjoyed leading the organization of this wonderful three-day retreat, exploring collaborations and getting to know our colleagues a bit better. |
| Feb 4, 2023 | Our paper “Moving trains like pebbles: a feasibility study on tree yards” was accepted at ICAPS! |
| Nov 7, 2022 | I presented my MSc thesis at BNAIC in Mechelen. |
| Sep 1, 2022 | I started my PhD in the RAIL lab with Mathijs de Weerdt and Sebastijan Dumancic. |