Sydney Dolan

2024

  • [December 2024] I’ve accepted a position as a postdoc at the Technical University Munich.
  • [November 2024] I’ve defended my PhD! My thesis is titled “Leveraging Information Sharing for Satellite Coordination and Navigation”
  • [October 2024] Our journal paper on fairness in cooperative multi-agent navigation problems has been accepted to the ACM Journal on Autonomous Transportation Systems. The preprint on arXiv is available here
  • [September 2024] I spoke on a panel about applying to graduate school at Olin College of Engineering
  • [August 2024] My M Eng student, Adina Golden, submitted her thesis! Congratulations Adina!
  • [August 2024] I will be at the first annual Reinforcement Learning Conference in Amherst Massachusetts! Please reach out if you would like to chat about my work!
  • [July 2024] I am helping organize a social for Queer in AI at the Reinforcement Learning Conference. Come join the social on Sunday August 11 at 12:15.
  • [July 2024] I was invited to speak with the MIT Media Lab’s Space Enabled group.
  • [May 2024] Our workshop paper on fairness in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning has been accepted to the Reinforcement Learning Conference!
  • [April 2024] I was selected as one of the finalists at MIT’s Research Slam
  • [March 2024] I was invited to speak at University of Michigans Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Department
  • [February 2024] My workshop proposal to the Reinforcement Learning Conference was accepted! Check out the workshop “Coordination and Cooperation in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning” and submit a paper!
  • [January 2024] I completed MIT’s Research Mentoring Certificate program

2023

  • [December 2023] Our work from NASA JPL’s Planetary Science Summer school has been made into two papers at the American Geophysical Union. Check out “The Architecture of Nautilus: A Multi-Flyby Mission Concept to Triton” and “The Science Case for Nautilus: A Multi-Flyby Mission Concept to Triton” for some really exciting mission design on the largest unmapped expanse in our solar system!
  • [September 2023] I was selected to participate in the 2023 Future Leaders in Aerospace Symposium
  • [July 2023] Our paper, “Scalable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning through Intelligent Information Aggregation” was accepted to ICML
  • [July 2023] I gave a spotlight talk for the Air Force Research Lab Autonomy Capability Team 
  • [June 2023] I was selected to participate in the Nexus NextProf Faculty Workshop
  • [May 2023] My paper proposing a game theoretic framework for satellite collision avoidance was accepted to the AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference!
  • [May 2023] I was a selected participant for NASA JPL’s Planetary Science Summer School