| Jan 14, 2026 | I joined a seminar on modeling in PDDL hosted by the Knowledge-based Autonomous Systems Lab. |
| Feb 20, 2026 | I served as a lead reviewer on the ICAPS program committee for the first time. This year, I also join the SoCS program committee. |
| Feb 24, 2026 | I gave a guest lecture on AI Planning for the Knowledge Representation and Symbolic Reasoning course in the Robotics MSc program at TU Delft. |
| May 20, 2026 | Our paper “Precomputing Multi-Agent Path Replanning Using Temporal Flexibility” together with Eric Kemmeren, Devin Wild Thomas, and Mathijs de Weerdt was accepted at the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS26), which I’ll present in Bremerhaven in August. |
| Jun 5, 2026 | Our paper “Revisiting Landmarks: How To Learn from Previous Plans to Generalize over Problem Instances” together with Sebastijan Dumancic, and Mathijs de Weerdt was accepted at the Generalization in Planning (GenPlan) Workshop, hosted at ICAPS26, which I’ll present in Dublin on June 28. |
| Jun 12, 2026 | Thomas Verwaal defended his MSc thesis on Lagrangian Relaxation Methods for the Train Unit Shunting Problem! |
| Jun 19, 2026 | Kees Blok defended his MSc thesis on Fast Task and Motion Planning for Multiple Manipulators! |
| Jul 2, 2026 | I attended ICAPS26 in Dublin, Ireland, where I presented our paper “Revisiting Landmarks: How To Learn from Previous Plans to Generalize over Problem Instances” at the GenPlan workshop. Great to see so many people again and have inspiring discussions! |
| Jul 3, 2026 | I was interviewed on the collaboration with industry and my PhD lab, you can now read the highlights and the full article online. |
| Aug 16, 2026 | I attended SoCS26 in Bremerhaven, Germany, where I presented our paper “Precomputing Multi-Agent Path Replanning using Temporal Flexibility”. This was my first time at SoCS and I enjoyed the fruitful discussions and interesting sessions! |
| Aug 17, 2026 | I attended the Joint Workshop on Planning for Complex Real-World Applications (CAIPI) and Bridging the Gap Between AI Planning and (Reinforcement) Learning (PRL) at IJCAI-ECAI26 in Bremen, Germany. |
| Sep 9, 2026 | I lectured for the Probabilistic AI and Reasoning MSc course at TU Delft about AI Planning. |