Aswin Thomas Abraham is pursuing his PhD at the NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, where he is attached to the Partner Technologies Research Group. His thesis research focuses on Real-time Learning for Game Team-mates.
Aswin has a BEng in Electronics and Communication from the Mahatma Gandhi University, India and MSc in Mechatronics from the Mechanical Engineering Department, NUS. Before joining NUS, he worked as a software engineer at Infosys Technologies Limited. He has also served as a guest lecturer at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, India where he taught Very High Speed Integrated Circuits Hardware Description Language (VHDL).
Publications
- Aswin Thomas Abraham and Kevin McGee, "AI for Dynamic Team-mate Adaptation in Games", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG) 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Kevin McGee and Aswin Thomas Abraham, "Real-time team-mate AI in games: a definition, survey, & critique", Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 2010, 124-131, Monterey, California, USA
- Qun Zhang, Pey Yuen Tao, Aswin Thomas Abraham, Brice Rebsamen, Chenguang Yang and Shuzhi Sam Ge, "Mission-Oriented Design: A Fully Autonomous Mobile Urban Robot", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI) 2010, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
- Aswin Thomas Abraham, Shuzhi Sam Ge and Pey Yuen Tao, "A Topological Approach of Path Planning for Autonomous Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments", International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems(IROS), St. Louis, MO, USA, 2009
Awards
- Best Poster Presenter, NGS Student Symposium, 2009: "Simultaneous Path Planning and Topological Mapping for Environment Exploration and Goal Oriented Navigation"