Our paper "Density-Driven Emergent Division of Labor in Evolutionary Multi-Robot Systems" (with Paolo Leopardi, Heiko Hamann, and Tanja Kaiser) was accepted at the 18th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2026) in Berlin.

Our paper "The Evaluation Cost of Task Specialization in Evolutionary Multi-Robot Systems" (with Paolo Leopardi, Heiko Hamann, and Tanja Katharina Kaiser) was accepted at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2026).

I co-authored three papers accepted at the 15th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2026) in Darmstadt: "On the Cost of Evolving Task Specialization in Multi-Robot Systems" (with Paolo Leopardi, Heiko Hamann, and Tanja Katharina Kaiser); "How Swarms Differ: Challenges in Collective Behaviour Comparison" (with André Fialho Jesus); and "Minimizing Uncertainty as a Principle for Task Allocation in Robot Swarms" (with Yannick Wesseloh, Paolo Leopardi, and Heiko Hamann).

Our paper "Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning for Robot Swarms: Learning from Human Demonstrations and Trained Policies" (with Mattes Kraus) was accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2026).

I gave a presentation on imitation learning for robot swarms at the 2nd German Robotics Conference (GRC 2026) in Cologne.

Our paper "Bayesian Decentralized Decision-Making for Multi-Robot Systems: Sample-Efficient Estimation of Event Rates" (with Gabriel Aguirre, Simay Atasoy Bingöl, and Heiko Hamann) was accepted at the IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot & Multi-Agent Systems (MRS 2025) in Singapore.

I co-organized the 14th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2024), which took place in Konstanz in October 2024, serving as the local organization chair.

I have obtained a Nexus grant from the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung for my project "Explainable Swarm Programming through Imitation Learning". With this grant, I will be able to start as a research group leader at the University of Konstanz.

I have been selected as a ZENiT fellow in the first cohort of the ZENiT program at the Zukunftskolleg Konstanz.

Jonas Kuckling
jonas.kuckling@uni-konstanz.de

Universität Konstanz
Universitätsstraße 10
78464 Konstanz, Germany