Abhishek Paudel

I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science at George Mason University, advised by Dr. Gregory J. Stein in the Robotic Anticipatory Intelligence & Learning (RAIL) Group.

My research is at the intersection of robotics and machine learning, with a focus on long-horizon planning under uncertainty. My work focuses on integrating planning and learning via model-based approaches to enable effective and reliable long-horizon decision-making under uncertainty for problems such as navigation, multi-robot coordination, task planning with missing objects, deployment-time introspection and adaptation, and LLM-informed robot planning.

I graduated with a degree in computer engineering from Tribhuvan University, IOE, Pulchowk Campus in Nepal. Before enrolling at GMU, I worked with UNICEF Nepal on several SMS-based platforms including U-Report Nepal. I was also a Microsoft Student Partner and a Fusemachines AI Fellow.