Rishi Hazra

WASP Ph.D. at Örebro University, Sweden

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I’m starting as a Postdoctoral research at FAIR (Meta AI), London, working with Yoram Bachrach on AI Research Agents. Previously, I have interned twice at Meta, working closely with Nicolas Carion, Yoram Bachrach, Ruta Desai and Akshara Rai

My doctoral research, supervised by Luc De Raedt and Pedro Zuidberg Dos Martires, primarily focused on developing LLM Agents equipped with search capabilities for improved reasoning and decision-making.

I completed my Masters in AI from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in 2019, supervised by Dr. Ambedkar Dukkipati. I have also had brief stints at Natural Understanding group @ Amazon Alexa-AI and as a Research Associate at Statistics and Machine Learning Group, exploring Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning.

news

Jul 08, 2025 Paper accepted at COLM 2025: Have Large Language Models Learned to Reason? A Characterization via 3-SAT
May 01, 2025 Paper accepted at IJCAI 2025 (Demo Track): Combining Code Generating Large Language Models and Self-Play to Iteratively Refine Strategies in Games.
Feb 26, 2025 Invited Talk at UCSB NLP Group on A Computational Theory Perspective on Reasoning
Jan 22, 2025 2 Papers accepted at ICLR 2025 REvolve: Reward Evolution with Large Language Models using Human Feedback (main track) & Can Large Language Models Reason? A Characterization via 3-SAT.
Jan 07, 2025 Paper accepted at HRI 2025 (Late Breaking Report): Evaluating Efficiency and Engagement in Scripted and LLM-Enhanced Human-Robot Interactions.
Nov 03, 2024 Awarded Top (8%) Reviewer for NeurIPS 2024. Twice in 3 years of reviewing for NeurIPS.
Aug 26, 2024 Starting as a Research Scientist Intern at FAIR, London under Nicolas Carion.
Aug 20, 2024 Paper accepted at LLMRA@RoMan 2024: Bidirectional Intent Communication: A Role for Large Foundation Models.
May 02, 2024 EgoTV dataset is now available on Meta AI datasets.
Apr 19, 2024 Talk on SayCanPay: Planning with LLMs at TAILOR.
Mar 01, 2024 Invited talk on Planning & Robotics with LLMs at Bosch Robotics Seminar. Link to Slides.
Jan 11, 2024 Demoing Robot Planning and Manipulation framework at WASP Winter Conference 2024, Norrköping, Sweden .
Dec 09, 2023 Paper accepted at AAAI 2024: SayCanPay: Heuristic Planning with Large Language Models using Learnable Domain Knowledge.

academic service

Program Committee & Session Chair for AAMAS'22, NeurIPS'22 (Top Reviewer)-23-24 (Top Reviewer)-25, Reviewer for EACL'23, ICML'23-24-25, KR'24, ICLR'24-25, TMLR