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SMU professor is one of AI's 10 scientists to watch
33-year-old studies autonomous machines and their behaviour
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Professor Akshat Kumar's research on autonomous entities leads him to ask: How do we recreate ourselves in software?
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Ilyda Chua
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For Assistant Professor Akshat Kumar, a teenage interest in computers and science fiction movies such as The Matrix has propelled him to become a rising star in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
The 33-year-old's research focuses on agent-based systems - autonomous entities, or agents, such as self-driving cars or autonomous ships, and the effects of their behaviour on the environment.
