Team
Director
Forrest Laine
Lab Director
Forrest works on methods for solving various problems in game theory as applied to autonomous systems.
Students
Mel Krusniak
PhD Student
Mel Krusniak is interested in game theory for multiple robotics, software tools for decision problems, and imperfect-information games in continuous settings.
Pravesh Koirala
PhD Student
Pravesh is a PhD student and Graduate Research Assistant at VAMPIR. His research lies at the intersection of computational game theory, optimization, and control. He is particularly interested in multilevel and hierarchical games such as Stackelberg games and integer programming games (IPGs), where decision-making becomes especially challenging due to nested objectives and combinatorial strategy spaces.
Andrew Cinar
PhD Student
Andrew Cinar is currently a Ph.D candidate interested in optimization, game theory, optimal control, dynamic simulation, and robotics. His current research focuses on using bilevel optimization for intelligent autonomous decision-making in multi-agent systems, such as trajectory planning in autonomous racing.
Yue Zhao
PhD Student
Yue works on mathametical programming, Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), and robust control.
Former Members
Max Milkert
PhD Student
While at the VAMPIR Lab, Max worked in neural network architecture optimization.
Alexy Skoutnev
PhD Student
While at the VAMPIR Lab, Alexy worked with robotics, motion planning, and reinforcement learning. Post-VAMPIR, he took a position at Athena AIC in Nashville.
