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Hello, I'm Jasmine!

I'm a third year PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

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Jasmine Jerry Aloor
Third Year Graduate Student, MIT

Major: Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering, MIT AeroAstro

My research seeks to address the challenge of balancing efficiency and fairness in multi-agent teams using reinforcement learning.

I am pursuing graduate studies at the DINaMo Group, MIT with Professor Hamsa Balakrishnan to strengthen my knowledge further and contribute to the research community.

Contact me: jjaloor [at] mit [dot] edu

News and Updates

  • March 2025: Presented Fair-MARL work at the Women in Data Science Cambridge Conference.
  • October 2024: Paper accepted at ACM Journal on Autonomous Transportation Systems.
  • September 2024: Awarded the MathWorks Fellowship for 2024-2025.
  • August 2024: Presented at the CoCoMARL workshop 2024 at the inaugural Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC 2024)

Research Experience

This section showcases some of the latest work I have created with links to the projects and a brief description.

Here are select research projects
Team simulation

Fairness in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Graduate research at MIT: Working on developing fair and efficient resource distribution in multi-agent reinforcement learning.

Multi-agent system MARL

Learn more here
X-Plane Visualization image

Socially Aware Imitation Learning in Multi-Aircraft Shared Airspace

Developing safe and socially aware motion planning method using imitation learning for general aviation (GA) aircraft in multi-aircraft shared airspace. Incorporating safety through formal logic methods.
Robotics Institute Summer Scholar RISS Program, AirLab, Carnegie Mellon University


Work presented at 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Social Navigation STL Multi Agent System

Paper Video
Two UAV simulation on Gazebo image

Multi UAV Trajectory Tracking and Obstacle Avoidance

Developed and simulated a pair of UAVs to track a moving target. Implemented Barrier Lyapunov Functions to maintain the desired formation. Internship at the GCDS Lab, IISc.


Published in the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering. 2022

ROS Gazebo Obstacle Avoidance Barrier Functions

Paper Video

For more projects, visit the Projects page.

Publications

This section contains my publications and articles. ORCID logo 0000-0003-4257-3870

2025

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  • Investigation of Flight Conditions where Box-Wing Outperforms Mono-Wing Configurations for Small UAVs,
    Jasmine J Aloor, Bikalpa B Gurung, Gauri Wadhwa, Mohit Singh, Raktim Bhattacharya, and Sandeep Saha
    In AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum, 2025, 10.2514/6.2025-0256.
    @inproceedings{aloor2025investigation,
      title={Investigation of Flight Conditions where Box-Wing Outperforms Mono-Wing Configurations for Small UAVs},
      author={Aloor, Jasmine J and Gurung, Bikalpa B and Wadhwa, Gauri and Singh, Mohit and Bhattacharya, Raktim and Saha, Sandeep},
      booktitle={AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum},
      pages={0256},
      year={2025},
      doi={10.2514/6.2025-0256},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02872}
    }
    conference, workshop
  • Asynchronous Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Limited Communication,
    Sydney Dolan, Siddharth Nayak, Jasmine Jerry Aloor, and Hamsa Balakrishnan
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.00558, 2025, 10.48550/arXiv.2502.00558.
    @article{dolan2025asynchronous,
      title={Asynchronous Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Limited Communication},
      author={Dolan, Sydney and Nayak, Siddharth and Aloor, Jasmine Jerry and Balakrishnan, Hamsa},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.00558},
      year={2025},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00558},
      doi={10.48550/arXiv.2502.00558}
    }
    journal

2024

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  • Towards Cooperation and Fairness in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning,
    Jasmine Jerry Aloor, Siddharth Nayak, Sydney Dolan, Victor L Qin, and Hamsa Balakrishnan
    In Coordination and Cooperation for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Methods Workshop, RLC, 2024,
    @inproceedings{aloortowards,
      title={Towards Cooperation and Fairness in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning},
      author={Aloor, Jasmine Jerry and Nayak, Siddharth and Dolan, Sydney and Qin, Victor L and Balakrishnan, Hamsa},
      booktitle={Coordination and Cooperation for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Methods Workshop, RLC},
      year={2024},
      url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=zeOwbBNQrA}
    }
    conference, workshop
  • Cooperation and Fairness in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning,
    Jasmine Jerry Aloor, Siddharth Nagar Nayak, Sydney Dolan, and Hamsa Balakrishnan
    ACM J. Auton. Transport. Syst., Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, December, 2024, 10.1145/3702012.
    @article{aloor2024cooperation,
      author = {Aloor, Jasmine Jerry and Nayak, Siddharth Nagar and Dolan, Sydney and Balakrishnan, Hamsa},
      title = {Cooperation and Fairness in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning},
      year = {2024},
      issue_date = {June 2025},
      publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
      address = {New York, NY, USA},
      volume = {2},
      number = {2},
      url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3702012},
      doi = {10.1145/3702012},
      journal = {ACM J. Auton. Transport. Syst.},
      month = dec,
      articleno = {8},
      numpages = {25},
      }
    journal

2023

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  • Follow The Rules: Online Signal Temporal Logic Tree Search for Guided Imitation Learning in Stochastic Domains,
    Jasmine Jerry Aloor, Jay Patrikar, Parv Kapoor, Jean Oh, and Sebastian Scherer
    In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023, 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160953.
    @INPROCEEDINGS{aloor2023ICRA,
    author={Aloor, Jasmine Jerry and Patrikar, Jay and Kapoor, Parv and Oh, Jean and Scherer, Sebastian},
    booktitle={2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)}, 
    title={Follow The Rules: Online Signal Temporal Logic Tree Search for Guided Imitation Learning in Stochastic Domains}, 
    year={2023},
    volume={},
    number={},
    pages={1320-1326},
    URL={https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160953},
    doi={10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160953}}
    conference, workshop
  • Bounded distance control for Multi-UAV formation safety and preservation in target-tracking applications,
    Aditya Hegde, Jasmine Jerry Aloor, and Debasish Ghose
    Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2023, 10.1177/09544100221125970.
    @article{hegde2021uav,
    author={Hegde, Aditya and Aloor, Jasmine Jerry and Ghose, Debasish},
    title ={Bounded distance control for Multi-UAV formation safety and preservation in target-tracking applications},
    journal = {Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering},
    volume = {237},
    number = {6},
    pages = {1403-1416},
    year = {2023},
    doi = {10.1177/09544100221125970},
    
    URL = {https://doi.org/10.1177/09544100221125970},
    eprint = {https://doi.org/10.1177/09544100221125970}
    }
    journal

2022

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  • Challenges in Close-Proximity Safe and Seamless Operation of Manned and Unmanned Aircraft in Shared Airspace,
    Jay Patrikar, Joao Dantas, Sourish Ghosh, Parv Kapoor, Ian Higgins, Jasmine J Aloor, Ingrid Navarro, Jimin Sun, Ben Stoler, Milad Hamidi, and others
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.06932, 2022,
    @article{patrikar2022challenges,
      title={Challenges in Close-Proximity Safe and Seamless Operation of Manned and Unmanned Aircraft in Shared Airspace},
      author={Patrikar, Jay and Dantas, Joao and Ghosh, Sourish and Kapoor, Parv and Higgins, Ian and Aloor, Jasmine J and Navarro, Ingrid and Sun, Jimin and Stoler, Ben and Hamidi, Milad and others},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.06932},
      year={2022},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06932}
    }
    journal

2021

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  • A Comparative Study of the Aerodynamic Performance of Box-wings and Mono-wings at Low Reynolds Number,
    Jasmine Jerry Aloor, Gauri Wadhwa, Bikalpa Gurung, Mohit Singh, and Sandeep Saha
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.02872, 2021, arXiv:2112.02872.
    @article{aloor2021comparative,
      title={A Comparative Study of the Aerodynamic Performance of Box-wings and Mono-wings at Low Reynolds Number},
      author={Aloor, Jasmine Jerry and Wadhwa, Gauri and Gurung, Bikalpa and Singh, Mohit and Saha, Sandeep},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.02872},
      year={2021},
      url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02872},
      doi = {arXiv:2112.02872},
    }
    journal
  • Multi-Modal Socially-Aware Imitation Learning for General Aviation,
    Jasmine Jerry Aloor, Jay Patrikar, and Sebastian Scherer
    Robotics Institute Summer Scholar’ Working Papers Journals, 2021, .
    @article{aloor2021multi,
    title={Multi-Modal Socially-Aware Imitation Learning for General Aviation},
    author = {Aloor, Jasmine Jerry and Patrikar, Jay and Scherer, Sebastian},
    journal={Robotics Institute Summer Scholar’ Working Papers Journals},
    url = {https://riss.ri.cmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021-CMU-RoboticsInstitute_SummerScholars-WorkingPapersJournal-Sized-compressed.pdf#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A131%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22%3A%22Fit%22%7D%5D},
    doi={},
    year={2021}
    }
    journal

2020

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  • Box Wing: Aerodynamic Experimental Study for Applications in MAVs,
    Mohit Singh, Jasmine Jerry Aloor, A Singh, and Sandeep Saha
    In National Conference on Wind Tunnel Testing (NCWT-06), 2020, 10.31219/osf.io/3r79q.
    @article{singh2020box,
      title={Box Wing: Aerodynamic Experimental Study for Applications in MAVs},
      author={Singh, Mohit and Aloor, Jasmine Jerry and Singh, A and Saha, Sandeep},
      booktitle={National Conference on Wind Tunnel Testing (NCWT-06)},
      url = {https://osf.io/3r79q/},
      doi = {10.31219/osf.io/3r79q},
      year={2020}
    }
    journal
  • Space Robotics versus Humans in Space,
    Jasmine Jerry Aloor, Shilpa Sajeev, and A Shakya
    In IAA-ISRO-ASI Symposium on Human Spaceflight Programme, 2020, 10.6084/m9.figshare.12073134.
    @article{aloor2020space,
      title={Space Robotics versus Humans in Space},
      author={Aloor, Jasmine Jerry and Sajeev, Shilpa and Shakya, A},
      booktitle={IAA-ISRO-ASI Symposium on Human Spaceflight Programme},
      year={2020},
      doi={10.6084/m9.figshare.12073134},
      url={https://figshare.com/s/ead54e3e3c03b6259955},
    }
    journal
  • KgpKubs 2020 Team Description Paper,
    Kharagpur RoboSoccer Students’ Group (KRSSG)
    RoboCup Small Size League Division B, 2020, .
    @article{krssg2020tdp,
    title={KgpKubs 2020 Team Description Paper},
    author = { Kharagpur RoboSoccer Students’ Group (KRSSG)},
    journal={RoboCup Small Size League Division B},
    url = {https://ssl.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020_TDP_KgpKubs.pdf},
    doi={},
    year={2020}
    }
    journal

2019

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  • KgpKubs 2019 Team Description Paper,
    Kharagpur RoboSoccer Students’ Group (KRSSG)
    RoboCup Small Size League Division B, 2019, .
    @article{krssg2019tdp,
    title={KgpKubs 2019 Team Description Paper},
    author = {Kharagpur RoboSoccer Students’ Group (KRSSG)},
    journal={RoboCup Small Size League Division B},
    url = {https://ssl.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2019_TDP_KgpKubs.pdf},
    doi={},
    year={2019}
    }
    journal

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