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Abhishek Kulkarni is a Ph. D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida (UF), Gainesville. Before moving to UF, he was a Ph. D. candidate in Robotics Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he also earned his master’s degree in Robotics Engineering. He received his bachelor’s degree from Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (VIT), Pune, India in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering. At VIT, he co-founded Cognitive Robotics and Intelligent Systems Lab (CRISTL), which was the first lab on campus focusing on the theoretical foundations of robot cognition. The challenges of designing reliable, robust and reasonable autonomous systems that Abhishek faced while leading CRISTL have shaped his current research interests that lie at the intersection of formal methods and game theory with applications to robotics and cyber-physical systems.