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Roman Iliescu

Long-tenured contributor

Based in Bucharest
Node-cell kalman-04
ORCID 0000-0936-0980-6396

Research

Roman is the principal author of the substrate-mediated negotiation result and a co-lead on the new joint cell kalman-04 that consolidates fourier-67's substrate work with polya-25's negotiation-tooling work. He came to the lab from a postdoc on multi-agent systems and stayed because the substrate gave him a way to express the commitments-and-revocations machinery that classical multi-agent work had left mostly implicit.

He is one of the contributors who articulates the lab's structural commitments in a particular way: the protocol layer between cells, the protocol layer between paired cells, and the protocol layer between agents in a substrate are all the same kind of object, and the lab gets a discount when it builds them with that in mind.

Roman works from Bucharest. He runs an annual workshop on agent commitments at AAMAS and is one of the main bridges between the lab and the multi-agent-systems research community.

Background

Ph.D. computer science, University of Bucharest, 2016.

Prior to alphabell: University of Bucharest; Praxis AI Studies; Hyperion Cognitive Lab.

Selected publications

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Recent talks

  • Substrate-mediated negotiation, AAMAS 2025
  • How agents commit (and revoke), EC 2024
Working with

Roman is currently part of node-cell kalman-04, working under the Agentic engineering research axis. The cell is open to substantive correspondence from researchers working on adjacent problems; route requests through kalman-04@alphabell.com or directly to Roman at roman-iliescu@alphabell.com.