| 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”. I also presented a poster on generalized landmarks at the DC. 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. |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Accepted at BNAIC/BeNeLearn26 is our demo, the result of a student project in the context of the Robust-Rail lab. Great work by Pruthav Sanwatsarkar, Tycho Grapendaal, Mayte Steeghs, and Léon Planken! The demo will be presented in Maastricht on October 23rd, 2026, see you there. |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Accepted at BNAIC/BeNeLearn26 is our demo, the result of a student project in the context of the Robust-Rail lab. Great work by Pruthav Sanwatsarkar, Tycho Grapendaal, Mayte Steeghs, and Léon Planken! The demo will be presented in Maastricht on October 23rd, 2026, see you there. |
| Oct 12, 2026 | Together with Ziyulong Wang and Thomas Heerdink, I organized a joint seminar between our ROBUST-RAIL Lab and the Digital Rail Traffic Lab of the Transport & Planning Department in Delft. It was very nice to share the research and insights, resulting in fruitful discussion. I presented our work on Replanning with Flexibility and the current follow-up work we are doing together with Maya Tielman at ProRail. |
| Oct 23, 2026 | BNAIC/BeNeLearn26 was a great success! Mayte Steeghs and Tycho Grapendaal presented our demo of the Robust-Rail framework and Reuben Gardos Reid presented the demo of Herb.jl. I also had the chance to present a poster of our work on Generalized Landmarks. Great to see familiar faces and meet others working in AI in the Benelux. |