Devdhar Patel
I am a Postdoctoral Scholar at the College of information Science and Technology, PennState. The goal of my research is to bridge the gap between Artificial and Biological Intelligence. Toward this goal, I am currently working on developing lighting-aware vision models and modelling stomatal dynamics in plant cells. I believe that agency is a fundamental aspect of general intelligence, which drives much of my research.
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Updates
Jan 2026: I will be teaching a new course: DS 402: From Biological to Artificial Intelligence for Spring 2026 Semester.
Sept 2025: I began my role as a postdoctoral research scholar at Penn State within Prof. James Z. Wang's group.
June 2025: Successfully defended my doctoral thesis titled "Time-Aware Intelligence for Efficient and Resilient Control."
Apr 2025: Two papers accepted at ICLR 2025! "Overcoming Slow Decision Frequencies in Continuous Control: Model-Based Sequence Reinforcement Learning for Model-Free Control" and "Optimizing Neural Network Representations of Boolean Networks"
Mar 2025: Sequence Reinforcement Learning has been shortlisted for a contributed talk at the AAAI-25 PRL workshop
Mar 2025: Our work on Sequence Reinforcement Learning has been accepted to two AAAI-25 workshops: PRL and GenPlan
Jan 2025: I will be teaching COMPSCI 119: Intro to Programming for the Spring 2025 semester
Dec 2024: I will be mentoring as a part of the Undergraduate Research Volunteer (URV) winter program