Aditya Mohan
PhD student at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hannover with Marius Lindauer
Institute of Artificial Intelligence
Welfengarten 1A
Hannover, Germany
I work on reinforcement learning agents that exploit the structure of real-world problems (context, temporal dependencies, modularity) to learn efficiently and generalize. Currently I focus on structured representations for offline RL and Behavior Foundation Models.
Before my PhD: B.Tech. in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology, a year as a Risk Consultant at KPMG, then an M.Sc. in Autonomous Systems from TU Berlin and EURECOM with a thesis on ad-hoc cooperation in Hanabi.
Beyond Research: I sing, play piano and guitar, and compose; I occasionally post music videos. I also enjoy cooking, reading and dancing. If you’d like to chat about research, music, food, or anything else, book a slot in my calendar.
news
| Oct 1, 2026 | Our paper Beyond Success Rates: Trainability and Extractability for Offline GCRL has been accepted to the NeurIPS 2026 Evaluations and Datasets Track. |
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| Aug 13, 2026 | Our paper Is Manipulation Hard for Successor Measures? will be presented at the RLBrew Workshop in Montreal. My collaborators will present the poster. |
| Jul 20, 2026 | Our framework Mighty has been accepted to the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). |
| Jul 5, 2026 | Our paper on RL-based dispatch for decentralized energy systems has been accepted to Energy Conversion and Management: X. |
| May 1, 2026 | I am visiting MIDI Lab, working with Prof. Amy Zhang on Behavior Foundation Models. Happy to connect if you are around. |
| Feb 15, 2026 | Concluded my research internship at Amazon Web Services, working on offline RL. |
| Jul 24, 2025 | Presenting our open-source RL library Mighty at EWRL 2025 in Tübingen. |
| Feb 28, 2025 | Presenting an abstract at RLDM 2025 in Dublin on using distributional RL for stable policy optimization. |
| Feb 25, 2025 | I will be visiting Georg Martius at Tübingen AI Center to work on representation learning for RL. |
| Dec 15, 2024 | Our work was featured in the Binaire Magazine. |
| Sep 30, 2024 | Two papers accepted to EWRL 2024 in Toulouse: |
| Sep 15, 2024 | Our paper “Structure in Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Survey and Open Problems” received the L3S Best Publication Award. |
| Sep 1, 2024 | Check out the new song on Hyperparameter Optimization by Theresa Eimer and me. |
| Apr 3, 2024 | Our paper Structure in Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Survey and Open Problems with Amy Zhang and Marius Lindauer has been published in JAIR. |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Our poster “Instance Selection for Dynamic Algorithm Configuration with Reinforcement Learning: Improving Generalization” has been accepted to GECCO 2024. |
| Feb 12, 2024 | Our paper AutoML in the Age of Large Language Models: Current Challenges, Future Opportunities and Risks has been accepted to TMLR. |
| Jan 11, 2024 | Raghu Rajan, Theresa Eimer, Andre Biedenkapp and I wrote a retrospective on AutoRL research in 2023. |
| Sep 13, 2023 | Presenting two papers at EWRL 2023:
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| May 31, 2023 | Two papers accepted at the AutoML Conference 2023 in Berlin:
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selected projects
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Beyond Success Rates: Trainability and Extractability for Offline GCRLIn NeurIPS 2026, Evaluations and Datasets Track, 2026 -
Is Manipulation Hard for Successor Measures?In RLBrew Workshop at the Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC), 2026 -
Structure in Deep Reinforcement Learning: A survey and open problemsJournal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 2024