2026 09 Cisco Grant

A new grant Automatically Discovering How Heterogeneous Agents Collaborate: Planning, Coordination, and Evolution for Multi-Agent Embodied AI Systems is awarded by Cisco (joint work with Katie). In this work, we make the collaboration itself the object that is learned: given a pool of heterogeneous agents and a task, we automatically discover and continually evolve who collaborates with whom and through what protocol, using hierarchical reinforcement learning with explicit credit assignment, and extend the framework to embodied multi-robot teams.