Publications
S. Sugaya, M. R. Yousefi, A. R. Ferdinand, M. Morales, L. Tapia, "Transfer Learning of Geometric Robot Motion Swept Volume Predictions via Multitask Learning", 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), accepted.
J. E. G. Baxter, T. Adamson, S. Sugaya and L. Tapia, "Exploring Learning for Intercepting Projectiles with a Robot-Held Stick", 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), accepted.
J. Baxter, M. R. Yousefi, S. Sugaya, M. Morales and L. Tapia, "Deep Prediction of Swept Volume Geometries: Robots and Resolutions," 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 6665-6672, (2020).
Y. A. Hasan, A. Garg, S. Sugaya and L. Tapia, "Defensive Escort Teams for Navigation in Crowds via Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 5(4), pp. 5645-5652, (2020).
Arpit Garg, Hao-Tien Chiang, Satomi Sugaya, Aleksandra Faust, Lydia Tapia, ''Comparison of Deep Reinforcement Learning Policies to Formal Methods for Moving Obstacle Avoidance'', International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), (2019).
H.T.L. Chiang, A. Faust, S. Sugaya and L. Tapia, ''Fast Swept Volume Estimation with Deep Learning''. Proc. Int. Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, Yucatan, Mexico (2018).
S. Sugaya and V. M. Kenkre, ''Analysis of Transmission of Infection in Epidemics: Confined Random Walkers in Dimensions Higher Than One'', Bull. Math. Biol., 80, 3106–3126 (2018).
S. Sugaya, Y. Susuki, A. Ishigame, A. Mammoli M. Martínez-Ramón, ''Modeling Nonlinear Dynamic System in RKHS through the Koopman Operator'', Proc. International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, 7 – 10 (2017).
V. M. Kenkre and S. Sugaya, ''Theory of Transmission of Infection in the Spread of Epidemics: Interacting Random Walkers with and Without Confinement'', Bull. Math. Biol., 76, 3016 (2014). Featured in an issue of the World Biomedical Frontiers due to its innovation and potential for significant impact.
K. Spendier, S. Sugaya, and V. M. Kenkre, ''Reaction-diffusion theory in the presence of an attractive harmonic potential'', Phys. Rev. E, 88, 062142 (2013).
S. L. Sessions, S. Sugaya, D. J. Raymond, and A. H. Sobel, ''Multiple equilibria in a cloud-resolving model using the weak temperature gradient approximation'', J. Geophys. Res., 115, D12110 (2010).
Thesis and Dissertation
The Smoluchowski Equation in Population Dynamics and the Spread of Infection, Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of New Mexico, 2016.
Testing SOC (Self-Organized Criticality) Hypothesis of Tropical Precipitation Using a Cloud Resolving Model, M.S. Thesis, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 2010.