Navigation with Dynamic Constraints in Dense Heterogeneous Traffic

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Autonomous Driving via Principled Simulations

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Robot Navigation In Dense Crowds

Predicting trajectories of Road-Agents in Dense and Heterogeneous Traffic

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PORCA

Emotion Recognition

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Robot Navigation In Dense Crowds

Citywide Estimation of Traffic Dynamics Via Sparse GPS Traces

Tracking Heterogeneous Road-Agents in Dense Traffic

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Motion Planning for Fluid Manipulation

Dynamically Balanced and Plausible Trajectory Planning for Human-Like Characters

Interactive Sound Propagation and Rendering

Publications

VEGA: Learning Navigation VLAs from In-the-Wild Egocentric Video with Geometric Trajectory Supervision
Gershom Seneviratne Yohan Abeysinghe Jianyu An Vaibhav Shende Dinesh Manocha

Act on What You See: Unlocking Safe Social Navigation in Vision-Language-Action Models
Qingzi Wang Xiyang Wu Guangyao Shi Dianwei Chen Xianfeng Yang Dinesh Manocha

CVPR 2026 PhysGS: Bayesian-Inferred Gaussian Splatting for Physical Property Estimation
Samarth Chopra Jing Liang Gershom Seneviratne Dinesh Manocha

COS-PLAY: Co-Evolving LLM Decision and Skill Bank Agents for Long-Horizon Tasks
Xiyang Wu Zongxia Li Guangyao Shi Alexander Duffy Tyler Marques Matthew Lyle Olson Tianyi Zhou Dinesh Manocha

IROS, 2026 SABER: A Stealthy Agentic Black-Box Attack Framework for Vision-Language-Action Models
Xiyang Wu Guangyao Shi Qingzi Wang Zongxia Li Amrit Singh Bedi Dinesh Manocha

CVPR, 2026 MASS: Motion-Aware Spatial-Temporal Grounding for Physics Reasoning and Comprehension in Vision-Language Models
Xiyang Wu* Zongxia Li Jihui Jin Guangyao Shi Gouthaman KV Vishnu Raj Nilotpal Sinha Jingxi Chen Fan Du Dinesh Manocha

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Media Coverage

Apr 14, 2026
GAMMA Lab & NVIDIA Release Audio Flamingo Next for Open Audio-Language Reasoning
Apr 10, 2026
Lin and Manocha Receive 2026 IEEE ICRA Most Influential Paper Award
Feb 18, 2026
GAMMA Lab & Apple Develop AMUSE to Advance Agentic Multimodal Reasoning
Jan 1, 2026
GAMMA Collaborates with NVIDIA on Music Flamingo, Adopted by Universal Music Group
Sep 18, 2025
GAMMA's joint work on "Sensible Agents" with Google Research
Aug 14, 2025
New Research Helps Robots Grasp Situational Context
Aug 13, 2025
Sanjoy Chowdhury’s Vision for Smarter, Multimodal AI
Jul 15, 2025
Joint work with NVIDIA on Audio Flamingo 3
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News & Events

Feb 3, 2026
Sonal Kumar and Younghan Lee received the Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award at UMD
Jan 1, 2026
GAMMA presented 3 papers at AAAI 2026
Nov 12, 2025
GAMMA organized RARA: First Workshop on Grounding Documents with Reasoning, Agents, Retrieval, and Attribution at ICDM 2025
Oct 6, 2025
GAMMA will present 4 papers at EMNLP 2025
Oct 6, 2025
GAMMA will present 6 papers at NeurIPS 2025
Jul 20, 2025
GAMMA is presenting 2 papers at ACL 2025
Jul 20, 2025
GAMMA will present 13 papers at IROS 2026
Jul 20, 2025
GAMMA will present 5 papers at ICCV 2025