Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science
The City College of New York & Graduate Center, CUNY

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the City College of New York (CCNY) and the CUNY Graduate Center. I also serve as the Associate Director of the Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Venture Pillar at the CUNY Remote Sensing Earth Systems Institute. Previously, I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, advised by Prof. John Dickerson and Prof. Tom Goldstein, and was a Student Researcher at Google AI/AR and an AI Resident at Google X, the Moonshot Factory.

My research focuses on AI agents, multi-agent reinforcement learning, autonomous decision-making, and multimodal embodied agents for real-world applications (especially scientific disocovery and smart grids). Recently, I was named a 2026 IEEE Laureate Forum Luminary.

Full Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Other Intellectual Property

- Patent Pending: Multimodal How-to Agent to Perform Step-by-Step Tasks Lavisha Agarwal, Vikas Bahirwani, Dia Kharrat, Lin Li, Andrea Colaco, Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay, Nishtha Bhatla, Bhanu Guda Filed with Google, November 14, 2024

Academic Leadership & Professional Service

Conferences, Workshops & Summits Organized

- General Chair, New York AI Agents Summit @ Manhattan (2026) Advancing Agentic Algorithms for Computational Science and Engineering Discovery, convening leaders across DOE, AFRL, DARPA, Stanford, Harvard, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, and Microsoft Research.
- Workshop Chair, AAAI 2025 Workshop on Multi-Agent AI in the Real World Co-organized with researchers from Google AR and Google DeepMind.
- Focus Area Session Lead, NCEMS Annual Summit 2026 Leading the session on "AI Agents-Driven Cellular Biology Discovery".
- Founder & Organizer, Multi-Agent RL & Autonomous Decision Making Reading Group (2023 – Present) Built a global community of 1,100+ researchers across 6 continents hosting Turing Award winners and industry research scientists.

Departmental & Institutional Governance

- Chair, Research and Entrepreneurship Committee, City College of New York (2025 – Present)
- Committee Member, Curriculum and Exam Committee, CUNY Graduate Center (2025)
- Committee Member, Curriculum Committee, CUNY Graduate Center (2025)
- Committee Member, Doctoral Student Research Grant (DSRG) Committee, CUNY Graduate Center (2025)
- Reviewer & Panel Member, Dissertation Fellowship Competition (Science Panel), CUNY Graduate Center (2025 – 2026)

Program Committees & Peer Review

Session Chair: NSF PCLNet Summit 2026, NCEMS Summit 2026, AAMAS 2025
Program Committee / Reviewer: ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, AAMAS, IJCAI, KDD, ACL, EMNLP.

Selected Invited Talks

- UCSD Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI) (2026) – Multi-Agent AI: Bridging Autonomous Decision-Making and Public Policy
- NASA / JPL IPNSIG Working Group (2026) – AI Agents to Orchestrate Real-World Communication: A Focus on the Interplanetary Internet
- CUNY Advanced Scientific Research Center (ASRC) (2026) – Distributed AI Agents for Scientific Discovery and Real-World Decision-Making
- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU APL) (2025) – Distributed AI Agents: Collaboration for Real-World Autonomous Decision-Making
- University of Southern California (USC) (2025) – Scaling Multi-Agent AI in Real-World Robotics
- Google DeepMind Astra Reading Group (2025) – Invited Technical Talk

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