Publications

A full publication list is available at dblp and google scholar.
My Erdős number is 4.

Most of my papers list all authors in alphabetic or randomized order, indicated by or , respectively. If you are wondering why one would do this, see this article by the American Mathematical Society.

📘 Papers

under submission

  • Maximal Adaptation, Minimal Guidance: Permissive Reactive Robot Task Planning with Humans in the Loop
    Oz Gitelson, Satya Prakash Nayak, Ritam Raha, and Anne-Kathrin Schumck
    [ arXiv | demo ]

2026

  • Concurrent Permissive Strategy Templates
    Ashwani Anand, Christel Baier, Calvin Chau, Sascha Klüppelholz, Ali Mirzaei, Satya Prakash Nayak, and Anne-Kathrin Schmuck
    [ TACAS’26 ]

  • Follow the STARs: Dynamic ω-Regular Shielding of Learned Policies
    Ashwani Anand, Satya Prakash Nayak, Ritam Raha, and Anne-Kathrin Schumck
    [ AAMAS’26 | arXiv | demo ]

  • Universal Safety Controllers with Learned Prophecies
    Bernd Finkbeiner, Niklas Metzger, Satya Prakash Nayak, and Anne-Kathrin Schumck
    [ AAAI’26 | arXiv | tool ]

2025

  • Quantitative Strategy Templates
    Ashwani Anand, Satya Prakash Nayak, Ritam Raha, Irmak Sağlam, and Anne-Kathrin Schumck
    [ ATVA’25 | arXiv ]

  • Synthesis of Universal Safety Controllers
    Bernd Finkbeiner, Niklas Metzger, Satya Prakash Nayak, and Anne-Kathrin Schumck
    [ TACAS’25 | arXiv | tool ]

  • Fair Quantitative Games
    Ashwani Anand, Satya Prakash Nayak, Ritam Raha, Irmak Sağlam, and Anne-Kathrin Schumck
    [ FoSSaCS’25 | arXiv | poster ]

2024

  • Strategy Templates – Robust Certified Interfaces for Interacting Systems
    Ashwani Anand, Satya Prakash Nayak, and Anne-Kathrin Schumck
    [ ATVA’24 (invited) | PDF ]

  • Localized Attractor Computations for Infinite-State Games
    Anne-Kathrin Schmuck, Philippe Heim, Rayna Dimitrova, and Satya Prakash Nayak
    [ CAV’24 | arXiv | tool ]

  • Most General Winning Secure Equilibria Synthesis in Graph Games
    Satya Prakash Nayak and Anne-Kathrin Schumck
    [ TACAS’24 | arXiv | poster ]

  • Context-triggered games for reactive synthesis over stochastic systems via control barrier certificates
    Ameneh Nejati, Satya Prakash Nayak, and Anne-Kathrin Schumck
    [ HSCC’24 ]

  • Contract-Based Distributed Logical Controller Synthesis
    Ashwani Anand, Anne-Kathrin Schumck, and Satya Prakash Nayak
    HSCC’23 best poster award
    [ HSCC’24 | arXiv | extended-abstract@HSCC’23 | poster ]

  • Solving Two-Player Games under Progress Assumptions
    Anne-Kathrin Schmuck, K. S. Thejaswini, Irmak Sağlam, and Satya Prakash Nayak
    [ VMCAI’24 | arXiv | talk ]

2023

  • Context-Triggered Abstraction-Based Control Design
    Satya Prakash Nayak, Lucas Neves Egidio, Matteo Della Rossa, Anne-Kathrin Schmuck, and Raphaël Jungers
    [ OJ-CSYS’23 | arXiv | extended-abstract@HSCC’23 | poster | simulation ]

  • Synthesizing Permissive Winning Strategy Templates for Parity Games
    Ashwani Anand, Satya Prakash Nayak, and Anne-Kathrin Schumck
    [ CAV’23 | arXiv | tool ]

  • Computing Adequately Permissive Assumptions for Synthesis
    Ashwani Anand, Kaushik Mallik, Satya Prakash Nayak, and Anne-Kathrin Schumck
    [ TACAS’23 | arXiv | tool | poster ]

2022

🧰 Tools

  • UCLearn : Universal Controller via Learning Prophecies
    [ Zenodo ]

  • rpg-STeLA : reactive program (infinite-state) game solver using Strategy Template-based Localized Acceleration
    [ GitLab | Zenodo ]

  • CoSMo : Contracted Strategy Mask Negotiation in two-objective parity games
    [ GitHub ]

  • PeSTel : Permissive Strategy Templates for generalized parity games
    [ GitHub ]

  • SImPA : Sufficient, Implementable, and Permissive Assumptions for synthesis
    [ GitLab ]