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Research Scientist @ SMU Singapore

I am a Research Scientist at Singapore Management University in the Neural and Cognitive Computing Group, focusing on multi‑agent reinforcement learning and federated learning.

Previously, I co‑founded a mental‑health startup through Entrepreneur First and engineered display‑driver innovations at Samsung Research India‑Bangalore.

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Education

Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence & ML

Reinforcement Learning & Control

Federated Learning & Privacy

Data Science & Analytics

Selected Research

Thesis

Methods for Autonomously Decomposing and Performing Long‑horizon Sequential Decision Tasks

Shubham Pateria — Ph.D. Thesis, NTU 2022

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FedART

Federated Self‑organizing Neural Networks for Distributed Data Clustering & Vertical FL

Shubham Pateria, Budhitama Subagdja, Ah‑Hwee Tan — Under Review

Part of the TrustFUL project at SMU & AISG. Outperforms baselines by 25% in sparse clustering.

HISOMA

Hierarchical Multi‑agent Control using Deep RL & Self‑organizing Networks

Licensed to DSO National Laboratories, Singapore 2023

ExplainART

Towards Explaining Sequences of Actions in Multi‑Agent DRL Models

AAMAS 2023 — Khaing Phyo Wai, Minghong Geng, Shubham Pateria, et al.

Poster
LSGVP

LSGVP: Value‑Based Subgoal Discovery & Path Planning

IEEE TNNLS 2023 — Impact Factor 14.255

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LIDOSS

LIDOSS: End‑to‑End Hierarchical RL with Integrated Subgoal Discovery

IEEE TNNLS 2022

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HRL Survey

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning: A Comprehensive Survey

ACM CSUR 2022 — Impact Factor 14.324

Paper
HRL AAMAS 2020

HRL with Integrated Discovery of Salient Subgoals

AAMAS 2020 — Shubham Pateria, et al.

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ISEMO

ISEMO: Multi‑Agent RL using Inter‑Subtask Empowerment Rewards

IEEE SSCI 2019

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Patents & Projects

Patents

  • Method and System for Optimizing Power Consumption in a Display Device — Ashish Kumar Singh, Shubham Pateria, et al. (Samsung R&D India‑Bangalore) — India Patent 201741038214, 2019. Link
  • Method and System for an Eye Sensation Prediction Based Display Enhancement — Krishna Kishor Jha, Ashish Kumar Singh, Shubham Pateria, et al. — India Patent 201741008468, 2019. Link

Selected Projects & Publications

  • Power Efficient, Bandwidth Optimized & Fault Tolerant Sensor Management for IoT in Smart Home — IEEE IACC 2015. Paper
  • Aspect‑Based Sentiment Analysis using Sentiment Flow with Local & Non‑local Neighbor Information — COLING 2016. Paper
  • Character‑level Sign Language Interpretation from Hand‑gestures using Conv‑LSTM. Project

Teaching Experience