👋 Hi, I am Bibek Poudel.

Final year Computer Science Ph.D. student in the Fluidic City Lab at UTK.

My research, advised by Dr. Weizi Li with support from Center for Transportation Research, lies at the intersection of reinforcement learning (RL), autonomous systems, and intelligent transportation - spanning from multi-agent simulation to real-world robots.

Currently, I am developing RL agents that can simultaneously design and control urban environments to optimize outcomes for multiple stakeholders: pedestrians, vehicles, and urban planners. Recently, I worked with EPIC lab to develop a robotic wheelchair for personalized exertion control using Human-in-the-loop RL.

For details on my background and experiences, please check out my resume. Besides my own research, I am developing cowrite, a tool that helps researchers publish faster. Sometimes, I write on my blog.