Deepak Akkil.
Multi-agent AI · HCI
Understanding humans.
Building agents.
Pushing the boundaries of
human–AI collaboration.
I design new ways for humans and agents to think and act together.
Selected highlights/ 01—04
01
Emergence World
A persistent shared world for studying how populations of AI agents behave and evolve over time.
02
Agent-E
A hierarchical web agent; 73.2% on WebVoyager, state of the art at release (2024).
03
VR & haptics
Gaze-guided interaction in virtual reality, combining target selection with haptic feedback.
04
GazeTorch
A spotlight that shares a remote helper’s gaze to guide hands-on tasks.