Saeid Amiri

I am research scientist at JP Morgan AI research working at the intersection of AI and Finance. Previously, I was a student at AIR Lab, SUNY Binghamton, working in the AIR lab focusing on knowledge-based robotics sequential decision making algorithms under the supervision of Shiqi Zhang. More specifically, I am interested in leveraging commonsense knowledge in POMDPs, Reinforcement Learning, and combinatorial optimization.

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Research

I'm interested in AI symbolic planning under uncertainty and Reinforcement Learning. Much of my research is about developing sequential decision making frameworks under partial observability. Representative papers are highlighted.

Surrogate-Assisted Monte-Carlo Tree Search in Facility Location and Beyond
Saeid Amiri, Danial Dervovic, Michael Cashmore,
SOCS, 2025
paper

Using Surrogates to speedup MCTS in combinatorial optimization

DKPROMPT: Domain Knowledge Prompting Vision-Language Models for Open-World Planning
Xiaohan Zhang, Zainab Altawel, Yohei Hayamizu, Yan Ding, Saeid Amiri, Hao Yang, Andy Kaminski, Chad Esselink, Shiqi Zhang

ICRA Workshop maybe , 2024
paper / webpage

Vision-language models (VLMs) have been applied to robot task planning problems

Learning to reason about contextual knowledge for planning under uncertainty
Cheng Cui, Saeid Amiri, Yan Ding, Xingyue Zhan, Shiqi Zhang

UAI, 2023
paper / Video presentation / slides / poster

Using supervised learning and automated reasoning to guide a POMDP-based symbolic planner

Value Detection Rate: A Performance Metric for Payments Fraud Detection
Danial Dervovic Saeid Amiri, Michael Cashmore

ICAPS FinPlan , 2023
paper

A metric for evaluating fraud detection system performance.

Integrating Action Knowledge and LLMs for Task Planning and Situation Handling in Open Worlds
Yan Ding, Xiaohan Zhang, Saeid Amiri, Nieqing Cao, Hao Yang, Andy Kaminski, Chad Esselink, Shiqi Zhang

Autonomous Robots Special Issue on Large Language Models in Robotics, 2023
paper / demo / webpage / code
Reasoning with Scene Graphs for Robot Planning under Partial Observability
Saeid Amiri, Kishan Chandan, Shiqi Zhang

ICRA, 2022
paper / demo / webpage / presentation / slides
Guiding Robot Exploration in Reinforcement Learning via Automated Planning
Yohei Hayamizuk, Saeid Amiri, Kishan Chandan, Seiki Takadama, Shiqi Zhang

ICAPS, 2021
paper / demo / poster

Using action knowledge to guide the model-based RL.

Learning and Reasoning for Robot Sequential Decision Making under Uncertainty
Saeid Amiri, Mohammad S. Shirazi, Shiqi Zhang

AAAI, 2020   (Oral Presentation)
paper / demo / code / slides / poster

Using supervised learning and automated reasoning to guide a POMDP-based symbolic planner

Augmenting Knowledge through Statistical,Goal-oriented Human-Robot Dialog
Saeid Amiri, Sujay Bajracharya, Cihangir Goktolga, Jesse Thomason, Shiqi Zhang
IROS, 2019
paper / arxiv / demo / code / slides / interview with Texplore

A robotic dialogue system that simultaneously identifies human intention and augments its knowledge base.

Multi-modal Predicate Identification using Dynamically Learned Robot Controllers
Saeid Amiri, Suhua Wei, Jesse Thomason, Jivko Sinapov, Shiqi Zhang, Peter Stone
IJCAI, 2018
paper / slides / code / poster

Leveraging Multi-Sensory data to guide a robot to identify object properties.

Work Experience
AI Research Scientist

JP Morgan AI Research, 2022 - Present

Combinatorial Optimization

Robotics Graduate Research Intern

ABB Robotics, 2020

Vision-based grasping using deep reinforcement learning

Research Educator

Freshman Research Immersion program at SUNY Binghamton, 2020 & 2021

Course website

Teaching First-year students AI and robotics and mentor them in their research projects.

Service
Program committee, AAAI-21, IJCAI-20, AAMAS-22, FLAIRS-22

Reviewer for ICRA-21 and IROS-20

Resources
  • Paper writing:
    1. "Writing a technical paper" in robotics by Stefanie Tellex.
    2. "Stanford scientific writing course".
    3. "Academic-Writing-Check tool".
    4. "Latex tips and tricks".
  • Paper reading:
    1. "How to read a paper" by Stefanie Tellex.
    2. Another video from Andrew Ng in CS230.
  • Submission/review:
    1. "How to write rebuttals" by Devi Parikh.
    2. "How to write a good review", the CVPR20 tutorial.
    3. AAAI reviewing guidelines.
    4. Handy "Chrome extension" for finding Bibtex faster by Anthony Chen.
  • Probability:
    1. "Review of Probability Theory" from CS229 at Stanford.


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