Prasanna Maddila

Link to CV (Last updated: 1 April, 2026).

I’m currently a PhD candidate at the University of Toulouse at the MIAT Lab, INRAE. Before that, I was an engineering student at CentraleSupélec, Paris, where I studied Computer Science (Sciences du Logiciel).

In my PhD work, I study Nash Equilibrium computation in multi-agent games, either by exact methods (such as approximation schemes), or by Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning techniques. I focus on games where a team has to play against multiple independent adversaries, in both one-shot and stochastic settings. These games are interesting since they arise in natural scenarios such as in Anti-Poaching efforts, and involve both competitive and cooperative behaviour.

When I’m not at the lab, I consume all things

  • code (especially with HPC/AI flavours like JAX and C++),
  • chess (50-50 record against Lichess’s Level 4 Bot)
  • literature,
  • and food, naturally.