Congratulations Dr. Jabez Leong Kit – Bouffanais' Research Lab

Congratulations to Jabez Leong Kit, who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) on 14 December 2021. His thesis, “Towards a Swarm Intelligence Benchmark Framework”, co-supervised by Roland Bouffanais and Soh Gim Song, revisits the concept of swarm intelligence, proposes a way to quantify it, develops a benchmark framework to compare swarming systems, and studies quantitatively how swarm intelligence transfers from one problem to another.

[PhD thesis (PDF)]

Publications with Jabez Leong Kit

Journal articles

H. L. Kwa, J. L. Kit, N. Horsevad, J. Philippot, M. Savari & R. Bouffanais, “Adaptivity: A Path Towards General Swarm Intelligence?”, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 10, 1163185 (2023). [DOI] [PDF]
H. L. Kwa, J. L. Kit & R. Bouffanais, “Balancing Collective Exploration and Exploitation in Multi-Agent and Multi-Robot Systems: A Review”, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8, 771520 (2022). [DOI] [PDF]

Conference papers

H. L. Kwa, J. L. Kit & R. Bouffanais, “Tracking Multiple Fast Targets With Swarms: Interplay Between Social Interaction and Agent Memory”, Proceedings of ALIFE 2021, online, pp. 62–71, MIT Press (2021). [DOI] [PDF]
H. L. Kwa, J. L. Kit & R. Bouffanais, “Tailoring Exploration and Exploitation in Multi-Agent Systems with Short-Term Memory and Limited Social Interaction”, 3rd International Workshop on Agent-Based Modelling of Human Behaviour (ABMHuB’21), online (2021). [PDF]
H. L. Kwa, J. L. Kit & R. Bouffanais, “Optimal Swarm Strategy for Dynamic Target Search and Tracking”, AAMAS 2020, 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Auckland, New Zealand, pp. 672–680 (2020). [DOI] [PDF]
J. Leong Kit, A. G. Dharmawan, D. Mateo, S. Foong, G. S. Soh, R. Bouffanais & K. L. Wood, “Decentralized Multi-Floor Exploration by a Swarm of Miniature Robots Teaming with Wall-Climbing Units”, MRS 2019, IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems, New Brunswick, NJ, pp. 195–201 (2019). [DOI] [PDF] — Outstanding Paper Award
J. Leong Kit, D. Mateo & R. Bouffanais, “A Decentralized Mobile Computing Network for Multi-Robot Systems Operations”, UEMCON 2018, 9th IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference, New York City, NY, pp. 309–314 (2018). [DOI] [PDF]