Kiril Solovey
Alumni · now at Technion
Kiril Solovey is a roboticist specializing in multi-robot systems and their applications to smart mobility. He is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, working with Marco Pavone, where he is supported by the Center for Automotive Research (CARS). He obtained a PhD in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, where he was advised by Dan Halperin.
Kiril's research focuses on the design of effective control and decision-making mechanisms to allow multi-robot systems to tackle complex problems for the benefit of the society. His work draws upon ideas that span across the disciplines of engineering, computer science, and transportation science, to develop scalable optimization approaches with substantial guarantees regarding quality and robustness of the solution. For his work he received multiple awards, including the Clore Scholars and Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowships, best paper awards and nominations (at Robotics: Science and Systems, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent System, and European Control Conference), and teaching awards.
In addition to his academic interests, he takes pleasure in being outdoors (mountain biking and hiking), traveling around the world, and enjoys food, cooking, music, books, and meditation.
Awards:
- Fulbright Post-doctoral Scholar Award (2018)
- Clore Scholars Programme (2015-2018)
- Best paper, International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (2017)
- Best student paper, Robotics: Science and Systems (2015)
- Excellence in teaching awards, Tel Aviv University (2015, 2016)
Publications
15 publications · full lab bibliography
- D. Jalota, K. Solovey, K. Gopalakrishnan, S. Zoepf, H. Balakrishnan, and M. Pavone, “When Efficiency meets Equity in Congestion Pricing and Revenue Refunding Schemes,” IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2023. (In Press)
- D. Jalota, K. Solovey, M. Tsao, S. Zoepf, and M. Pavone, “Balancing Fairness and Efficiency in Traffic Routing via Interpolated Traffic Assignment,” Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, vol. 37, no. 32, pp. 1--40, 2023.
- D. Dayan, K. Solovey, M. Pavone, and D. Halperin, “Near-Optimal Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Finite Sampling,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 3422--3436, 2023.
- A. Wu, T. Lew, K. Solovey, E. Schmerling, and M. Pavone, “Robust-RRT: Probabilistically-Complete Motion Planning for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems,” Int. Symp. on Robotics Research, 2022.
- D. Jalota, K. Solovey, M. Tsao, S. Zoepf, and M. Pavone, “Balancing Fairness and Efficiency in Traffic Routing via Interpolated Traffic Assignment,” Proc. Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2022.
- S. Choudhury, K. Solovey, and M. P. Kochenderfer, “Coordinated Multi-Agent Pathfinding for Drones and Trucks over Road Networks,” Proc. Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2022.
- D. Jalota, K. Solovey, K. Gopalakrishnan, S. Zoepf, H. Balakrishnan, and M. Pavone, “When Efficiency meets Equity in Congestion Pricing and Revenue Refunding Schemes,” ACM Conf. on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization, 2021.
- K. Solovey, S. Bandyopadhyay, F. Rossi, M. T. Wolf, and M. Pavone, “Fast Near-Optimal Heterogeneous Task Allocation via Flow Decomposition,” Proc. IEEE Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2021.
- S. Choudhury, K. Solovey, and M. P. M. Kochenderfer, “Efficient Large-Scale Multi-Drone Delivery Using Transit Networks,” Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, vol. 70, pp. 757--788, 2021.
- R. A. Brown, F. Rossi, K. Solovey, M. Tsao, M. T. Wolf, and M. Pavone, “On Local Computation for Network-Structured Convex Optimization in Multi-Agent Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 542-554, 2021.
- S. Choudhury, K. Solovey, and M. P. M. Kochenderfer, “Efficient Large-Scale Multi-Drone Delivery Using Transit Networks,” Proc. IEEE Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2020.
- R. A. Brown, F. Rossi, K. Solovey, M. T. Wolf, and M. Pavone, “Exploiting Locality and Structure for Distributed Optimization in Multi-Agent Systems,” European Control Conference, 2020.
- K. Solovey, L. Janson, E. Schmerling, E. Frazzoli, and M. Pavone, “Revisiting the Asymptotic Optimality of RRT*,” Proc. IEEE Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2020.
- M. Tsao, K. Solovey, and M. Pavone, “Sample Complexity of Probabilistic Roadmaps via Epsilon-nets,” Proc. IEEE Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2020.